New bloggage about web stuffs: “Diary of an Engine Diversity Absolutist” https://torgo.com/blog/2020/01/diary-of-an-engine-diversity-absolutist.html …
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Very well-written
@torgo; quite timely for those of us at#Brrrlin. The arguments you’re fighting are often made, whether by@slightlylate or others. Aside: WTF another ContactsAPI? & ZERO mention of past attempts e.g. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ContactsAPI … and ... https://tantek.com/t54n21 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
It's also, sadly, a straw-person that doesn't represent our actual actions or perspective on feature development. I hope
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Replying to @slightlylate @torgo
no straw-people there. Statements Dan outlines, argues against, are made by many webdevs. Also, Alex, WTF Contacts API explainer has no history? Can you please ask
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The B2G Contacts API was (like BBs and Palms) never a standards-track proposal, IIRC. But happy to have folks update references.
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never? really asking me to do your
#LMGTFY homework? Like https://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-manager-api/ … Everything B2G was standards-track. &@W3C@ContactsAPI variants like: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2009Apr/att-0001/contacts.html … https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-contacts-api-20100121/ … https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-contacts-api-20140114/ … https://tantek.com/t54n42 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
Thanks for the correction. My memory was faulty (per usual).
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