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• webusb

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  Connecting hardware to the web.

  

This is such a lame argument. You want it to be true but have no evidence that it actually is true.

A lot of the Chrome team's "standards" have problems with accessibility, workability on mobile, security[0], privacy[1], or just battery life. Some are neat experiments that are or only will be used in the wild by advertisers to track and identify users.

Because the Safari/WebKit team doesn't have to chase users for revenue like Mozilla does they can afford to be more conservative with what Google "standards" they support. Being able to offer a tighter privacy posture or efficiency is part of the iOS/macOS sales pitch.

[0] https://github.com/WICG/webusb/issues/50

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387492/google-floc-ad-t...

• standards-positions

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> Chromium IS the standard. Firefox knows this and implements what Chromium supports.

This is untrue. There are many cases where Firefox has decided not to implement something Chrome has. Here is a list of specifications that Firefox does not yet implement but has considered:

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

Many of the ones listed as “harmful” are implemented by Chrome.

> Safari is the new IE. If you don't believe me, search for the phrase "is Safari the new IE" and see what web devs have to say about it.

I’v been developing for the web for over 20 years and that’s total nonsense. There’s nothing that makes a developer stand out as inexperienced quicker than saying that Safari is the new IE. It just shows they have no conception at all about how Internet Explorer held the entire frontend development world at a standstill for five years. Safari on its worst day is nothing like Internet Explorer.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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