In addition to being entirely unfit for feature development and iteration (that's what incubation proecesses are for), chartered WG stages have near zero predictive value. I tried to outline why in the previous posts, but it seems worth underlining *that* it's true.
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The takeaway for you, as a web developer is this: dissent of one engine (or even multiple) to a proposal requires an *exrtordinary* amount of background info to unpack, let alone judge well. If you are only watching the performative aspects of the pagent, you'll be disempowered.
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Replying to @ChrisFerdinandi
You didn't. You ended up with a proposal to prototype toast and gather feedback. Conflating them is, minimum, disingenuous. You're better than that, Chris.
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But what <toast> highlighted, more than anything, was how standards processes are abused by folks looking to distract from their own lack of proposals and leadership. Nobody mounting high horses abt <toast> was volunteering resources to research counter-proposals, IIRC.
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If Google implements something that developers can use outside of an official standards process, whether it's "officially released" or not is irrelevant. Chrome feels a lot like the new IE6 in terms of "we just do what we want"
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Also, it's not on everyone else to offer alternatives. It's on Google to prove it's a good idea. Isn't that how the process works?
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..and I2I/I2P is part of that massive effort to do so. Disingenuous misrepresentations by some not withstanding, that's what the team *was doing*.
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And "the process" is *vendor specific*. Some vendors find it convenient to wait on others to trailblaze and lean on formal WG stages to judge when.m to invest. This is a situational choice.
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As an outsider to this whole process, it feels like you deliberately use language that positions Google as a savior of the web (trailblaze, etc.) as an excuse to may just do whatever you want. That may not be what's *actually* going on, but those are the optics.
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Do you imagine we invest this much as an intellectual exercise? There must be a reason to maintain an engine. Winning benchmarks is not a worthy cause.
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I mean... Google makes a fair bit of it's money (dare I say most of it) from targeted advertising driven by accumulating as much data as possible about people as possible. That might not be why YOU invest in Chrome, but it's likely why Google does.
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