And just so we're on the same page: I co-led the team that developed Web Components inside of Chrome and I helped hire the Polymers.
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im aware of who you are. adaptive was coined years prior to pwa. it led the way. not good enough?
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If it were, we wouldn't have needed a new name. That's the real bugger about branding: it's not about correctness, it's about the "hook".
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...and _that_ is about audience. "Adaptive" didn't hook with business decision makers in a way that opened doors. That's happening now.
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bc google is pushing it.
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...and how do you imagine *that* happened?
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how do i imagine what happened
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If you'll allow, I'd be happy to recount (some of) the history.
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Co-incident to our efforts on Web Components, another team inside of Chrome was developing "Chrome Apps"; I argued against them at the time.
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...but argument that a more capable platform was needed wasn't wrong. Question was "how". Many platform folks (incl me) busy w/ WC/ES6.
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In 2012 I moved to London for personal reasons and had to stop co-leading the Web Components/ES6 efforts because time-zones wouldn't work.
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Chrome Apps v1 and v2 happened between 2010 and 2013. Meanwhile, AppCache had been deployed broadly and was not received well.
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