Comment by troupo
11 hours ago
> True, but they were equally able to propose and deploy alternative solutions and mostly just went along with web components (with exceptions of course).
Safari doesn't have as many engineers (a shame) and definitely doesn't have as many people whose apparent job is just to sit on standards committees and generate specs (like Alex Russel, Justin Fangnani etc.).
They did end up proposing declarative template instantiation in 2017: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposal... but that mostly went nowhere
That looks interesting – certainly a lot simpler and closer to web developers’ needs than what ended up getting standardised.
It really is a shame Apple don’t invest more in WebKit and the web standards process. Although they’ve been doing a lot better over the past few years.