Comment by troupo

3 months ago

There was a discussion they opened to "gather community feedback" just three weeks ago. That one did get heated: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Google ignored everything, pushed on with the removal, and now pre-emptively closed this discussion, too

> Google ignored everything, pushed on with the removal, and now pre-emptively closed this discussion, too

To be fair to Google, they've consistently steam-rolled the standards processes like that for as long as I can remember, so it really isn't new.