One single 'set' approach for future browser Extension?

[Clarity]

Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, and Google browsers to cooperate.

As this initiative progresses, there will be little to concern. The only differences will be which UI browser we prefer.

One way of looking at this approach they announce.

[xenial]

In an ideal world web standards should use non obfusucated javascript code and create a common standard which ALL browsers can render sites properly instead of google forcing their own standards and making chromium the de facto standard browser.

[Clarity]

I am not sure if it is Google forcing a standard. They just created an efficient engine and open-source it years ago. The companies using it, over the years, found efficiency in the engine and are moving to coaleste around its use while making it easy for extension developers to build once and run anywhere the engine exist.

Its not google ... more so the BILLIONS of lines of code we live in and manufacturers looking for better ways for app/extension developers to also contribute.

I think.

[mikewalsh]

Let me put this another way.

In an ideal world web standards should use non obfusucated javascript code and create a common standard which ALL browsers can render sites properly instead of google forcing their own standards and making chromium the de facto standard browser.

IF Chrome wasn't so widely-used - and why use it, if you don't like it, hmm? - then Chrome/the Chromium Projects/the Electron framework & all related apps built around it, etc., etc., would years ago have been relegated to that huge pile of applications that Google have abandoned over time.

Such hasn't happened, and Chrome dominates the browser market. 'Nuff said, I think.

It's the billions of users that maintain Google's position of power as an internet supergiant. No-one else.

Mike.

[xenial]

Let me put this another way.

In an ideal world web standards should use non obfusucated javascript code and create a common standard which ALL browsers can render sites properly instead of google forcing their own standards and making chromium the de facto standard browser.

IF Chrome wasn't so widely-used - and why use it, if you don't like it, hmm? - then Chrome/the Chromium Projects/the Electron framework & all related apps built around it, etc., etc., would years ago have been relegated to that huge pile of applications that Google have abandoned over time.

Such hasn't happened, and Chrome dominates the browser market. 'Nuff said, I think.

It's the billions of users that maintain Google's position of power as an internet supergiant. No-one else.

Mike.

Hmm with the greatest respect dearest mike but higher numbers should not dictate standards.

Ford cars have a massive number but not all of us like fords and prefer volvos for example.
Money talks and google have it in abundance and so have a huge influence.