What's the point of a standard if no one adopts it?

morelisp · on Oct 13, 2020

Conversely, what is the point of a standard that just documents what 2 out of 3 multi-billion companies want to do anyway?

chkuendig · on Oct 13, 2020

It ensures that they do it the same way

morelisp · on Oct 13, 2020

Unless they disagree. Then they “standardize” both ways and the rest of us just have to cope.

bawolff · on Oct 13, 2020

What do you think standards are?

Documenting the commonalities between implementations in order to gain interopability, is precisely the point of a standard.

barumi · on Oct 13, 2020

> Conversely, what is the point of a standard that just documents what 2 out of 3 multi-billion companies want to do anyway?

Because it provides a fixed target that can be targeted with confidence by both developers and also the makers of any alternative browser (of which about 4 are still listed in global browser market share statistics).

Those who complain that right now the browser market is dominated by a couple of players seem to be entirely oblivious to history.