There was consensus in the WG circa '17 that the then-current spec would need to be overhauled and wasn't going to be the thing to standardise. Other vendors shipped it anyway!
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Replying to @slightlylate @ChrisFerdinandi and
Turned out the group was right. Today's WebXR specs are very different. Chrome prevented "premature compatibility" about a thing which was the wrong design through Origin Trials: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/OriginTrials/blob/gh-pages/developer-guide.md …
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Replying to @slightlylate @hashseed and
I appreciate the history and all that Google has done here. I don’t like Chrome’s outsized influence on the platform as a corporate sponsored pseudo-monopoly.
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Replying to @ChrisFerdinandi @hashseed and
Cool. Might perhaps then be more effective to request others invest reasonable amounts (which they *absolutely can*) and, perhaps, stop trolling the folks who are struggling to be careful about leadership in the absence of collaboration created by their lack of investment?
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Replying to @slightlylate @hashseed and
I’m not trolling. I’m a big fan of your work, Alex. But pushing the idea that “maybe a monoculture is good” when you work at a massive surveillance capitalism employer is dangerous, irrespective of the great work you personally do.
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I'm asking the community to honestly interrogate its priors. *Why* was monoculture bad? I can think of many reasons, but until we dispassionately investigate, we get hung up on the politics and can't see the situation clearly enough to change it.
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And I'm saying in no uncertain terms that "Google has an undo influence on what features get prioritized in implemented" under a non-monoculture. That would be worse without Firefox as a balancing force.
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Replying to @ChrisFerdinandi @slightlylate and
You're calling it "leadership." I'm calling it "corporate control of a shared, common resource."
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I'm sorry we seemingly can't have a debate about values and outcomes. Makes me sad.
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I think we can. Our values are just not aligned on this one. That’s ok, right?
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We will discover our shared values from debate about shared evidence. To do that, we must have a rhetorical space where the other side is not defacto wrong or anti-social.
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