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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is a thoughtful piece; what Chris didn't see were some of the failure modes of Hixie's hubris when it came to inventing new elements in HTML5 (see also: "what we need is WASM and WebGPU" pipe dreams). But it's spot-on about how Google has turned away from the web, particularly on mobile, and empowered the Android team to facilitate a cozy anti-web duopoly:
https://cdibona.substack.com/p/my-eulogy-for-the-open-web-and-old