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construct-stylesheets
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Safari releases are development hell
> With adoptedStyleSheets they're objecting to making backwards incompatible changes
Which would not be bacwards incompatible if they hadn't shipped something that wasn't agreed on in the first place.
Again, slowly: they literally shipped that to production despite loud and explicit objecitons from both Firefox and Safari they shipped it to production. When asked to hide it back behind the flag, "but backwards incompatible change, the framework we're developing is already depending on it"
And since you're quoting rniwa, here's the relevant quote https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45#issu...:
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I feel like I’ve put so much time & energy into making this feature something sane & useful, and all you did was basically to dismiss many of my feedbacks and go with whatever you like and just ship it. And now you’re saying you can’t make changes because you shipped it?
I’m sorry but that’s just not how standards work.
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> With WebMIDI they're saying they want to do an announcement before making the change.
Indeed. Once again: because they shipped an API that neither Safari nor Mozilla supported. Now that this issue has surfaced (no thanks to Chrome), they can't just roll it back or fix it because people already rely ono this behaviour, which the implicitly acknowledge.
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W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization
It's not true, to w3c's surprising credit.
What Google does, is publish a "draft" which is as far from a standard as their authors are from the Moon. This gives Chrome the leeway to call it an "emerging standard" and just ship it. It doesn't care if there are objections, or that other browser vendors will not implement it. It's now a "standard" in Google's dictionary.
For something to become a W3C standard even in the present world, you need a consensus and at least two independent implementations. None of that exists for stuff Google pushes out (hardware APIs, web transport, constructible stylesheets [1], the list goes on...).
The correct name for those is Chrome-only non-standards.
[1] These one isn't even a draft. It is.... "a collection of interesting ideas" in a working group https://wicg.github.io/construct-stylesheets/ Shipped by default in Chrome, of course
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SQLite WASM in the Browser Backed by the Origin Private File System
I literally provided just some of the examples. Those are easily verifiable.
Web Transport is shipped by default. What was the input from other browser?
Here's the timeline for HID: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459#is...
Constructible Stylesheets: the spec contained a trivially reproducible race condition, the API was badly specified. Google shipped against any objections and refused to bring it back under the flag. Full discussion here: https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45. Shipped in Chrome https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45#issu... (may be hidden on mobile) despite multiple unresolved issues. Two years later Chrome did add a better API that people originally requested, other issues potentially remain.
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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice
> If there are examples of 'Apple ignoring standards' actually meaning Chrome-only features please tell me one.
Easy.
The most obvious/glaring one is WebHID. Enjoy the timeline: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459
It's not just HID, of course. All/most of the hardware APIs are considered harmful by both Safari and Mozilla. Chrome is shipping them enabled by default, and there's no end to clueless developers maoning about this and calling Safari (mostly) and Firefox (from time to time) too slow in "moving the web forward". Needless to say that all those non-standards are pushed forward by Chrome.
The less obvious one is Constructable Stylesheets.
The spec had an obvious flaw that could lead to easily reproducible deadlocks. And that is on top with other issues with design, API naming etc. A team within Google (lit-html) wanted this feature, so Chrome shipped it against clear objections from both Safari and Firefox. And then refused to move the feature back under a flag because "0.8% of page views in Chrome" were suddenly using this feature. And proceded to gaslight other browsers' developers https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45. See e.g. a response to that https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45#issu... Of course there's now a "looking ahead" that wants to do exactly what Safari and Mozilla wanted to do in the first place: https://web.dev/constructable-stylesheets/#looking-ahead
In general, Chrome pushes 40 to over 100 new Web APIs with each release (that is, every two months). How many of them are actual standards that had actual input from other browser developers? In how many Chrome actually listened and implemented suggestions? https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
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“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism. “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not
> The negatives are often theoretical
They are not theoretical. Too bad webapicontroversy.com has been shut down (it looked like this [1]), but you can scroll down to "defer" and "considered harmful" in Mozilla's positions here: [2]
There are more, of course, but they are not visible unless you're willing to follow thousands of issues across hundreds of GitHub repositories. One that springs to mind is, of course Constructible Stylesheets. Mozilla and Safari: the spec describes an algorithm that leads to deadlock in trivial code, we wont implement it until this is fixed. [3] Chrome: ship it, because lit-html (developed by Google) wants it and is already using it. And then procedes to gaslight people and misrepresent their positions (cant' find the relevant link, but at this point I can't find the will to dive into the cesspool).
[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32768/108985355-3f...
[2] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
[3] https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45#issu...
file-handling
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SQLite WASM in the Browser Backed by the Origin Private File System
Where file handling is concerned, there are at least
- File System Access API, https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/
- File Handling, https://github.com/WICG/file-handling/blob/master/explainer....
- Origin Private File System, https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/blob/main/AccessH...
There was also Storage Foundation API to which the reaction was "I don't think it's an acceptable outcome for the web platform to have that many ways to work with files" :) https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/481 This one never saw the light of day.
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Getting Started with the File System Access API
It's great and I'm using it for https://sqliteviewer.app.
It would be even better if it allowed partial reads/writes with offsets, but alas, security concerns seem to block that.
I'm looking at the File Handling API[1] next to let the (installed) web app open .sqlite lite files from the OS file explorer.
[1]: https://github.com/WICG/file-handling
What are some alternatives?
interop - web-platform-tests Interop project
fs - File System Standard
file-system-access - Expose the file system on the user’s device, so Web apps can interoperate with the user’s native applications.
bangle-io - A web only WYSIWYG note taking app that saves notes locally in markdown format.
absurd-sql - sqlite3 in ur indexeddb (hopefully a better backend soon)
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goyo.vim - :tulip: Distraction-free writing in Vim
topics - The Topics API
standards-positions