Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I'm one of the blink API owners who would need to approve this feature if it were to ship in Chrome. I outlined some of my thoughts on this earlier here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_...

It's complex and nuanced, all about altering probabilities of various bad things and TBH work still needs to be done to prove a useful middle ground even exists.

But one thing I can say for sure is there's no way I'm approving Chrome adding a feature which makes it possible for websites to be viewed only in Chrome. Nobody wants that and it's listed as an explicit anti-goal of the feature. Chrome couldn't have existed in the first place without masquerading as Safari, who masqueraded as Netscape etc.., this is something we're all very aware of and committed to in Chrome as its core to the openness of the web.



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: