Comment by simoncion
8 hours ago
> Didn't this effort start with Mozilla and not Google?
Maybe round one of it like ten years ago did? From what I understand, it's a Google employee who opened the "Hey, I want to get rid of this and have no plans to provide a zero-effort-for-users replacement." Github Issue a few months back.
> It was opened by a Chrome engineer after at least two meetings where a Mozilla engineer raised the topic, and where there was apparently vendor support for it.
— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953349
I don't see any evidence of that claim from the materials I have available to me. [0] is the Github Issue I mentioned. [1] is the WHATNOT meeting notes linked to from that GH Issue... though I have no idea who smaug is.
[0] <https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523>
[1] <https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11146#issuecomment-275...>
Smaug is the Mozilla engineer they were talking about:
https://github.com/smaug----
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