Better late than never?
What I read is: Apple devs came back with a list of problems and issues as long as Jupiter's equator, Chrome said "we don't care" and shipped it?
> I just think of all the lost time for the web and what could have been.
With Chrome not rushing it's own broken insecure implementations of internal APIs, not pretending they are standards and not gaslighting other browser vendors? Oh, the Web would be a much, much better place.
> I just think of all the lost time for the web and what could have been.
This doesn’t seem like it enables anything new though? It’s a convenience.
Darin used to be something like my boss's boss's boss's boss when I worked in Chrome.
Firefox and Safari have said “you what!? No way we’re implementing that as it is”. And Safari are now implementing the safe and boring part of the spec, not the part that people actually want.
If Chrome matters, Firefox doesn’t, and Safari is measured against when Chrome supports something rather than when the specification becomes stable, it sounds like you think the web is defined by “whatever Chrome supports, whenever Chrome supports it”.
I can guarantee you Firefox will eventually be running Blink because Mozilla has no vision for the future of the web anymore. Mark my words.
Positioning Chrome as the definition of the web is incredibly harmful for the long-term health of the web. A web independent of a single vendor is vital.
the difference is that Microsoft wanted to protect the Desktop platform. Google isn't in that position with the Andorid platform, but requires improvement on the Web.
That said: I fear the power Google has in that realm.
Where did I say that?
Google has ploughed ahead with File System Access in order to meet a developer desire (and occasionally user desire). Mozilla and Apple have declined to implement it (or at least the dangerous half) because no one can find an acceptable solution to the security problems.
File System Access is not currently a good web standard—in fact, it has not even progressed to being a web standard, because of these problems.