The world where JavaScript has a robust standard library is one where there is only one browser vendor who gets to call all the shots regarding what the web looks like.
That is not a better world.
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Possibly, although the fix for this particular issue (Temporal API) is available in the current release of Firefox as well as the preview release of Safari, but it's not in that dominant browser.
and that differs from chrome dictating standards how?
also this could've been handled easily by committee(ugh), or a 3rd party open source organization akin to linux foundation that just makes js library that all browser vendors use. Or making just a specification for JS handling things.
you know - like a lot of other languages are handled, including their standard library.
Kind of funny that you think the open web still exists.
I mean, even Microsoft gave up and just went with Chromium, and they got the definition of almost infinite resources at their disposal.
Effectively if your website doesn't run in Chrome and Safari, it won't be seen by 99% of the market.
> even Microsoft gave up
Ah yes, Microsoft, the defenders of the free world.
> > even Microsoft gave up ... and they got the definition of almost infinite resources at their disposal
> Ah yes, Microsoft, the defenders of the free world.
No, Microsoft, one of the few businesses in the world that has both the technical ability, and the financial muscle, to be able to develop their own browser engine.
Who still chose not to. Leaving us stuck in the duopoly of Apple and Google, even outside of our mobile phones.
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> That is not a better world.
Not a better world, just the current world.
Safari is too valuable of a platform for web developers to ignore, but otherwise yes it's the only real exception to the Chrome monopoly and still certainly much smaller in terms of absolute users.
I use Firefox on all my devices.
Mozilla is no longer a better actor than Google or Apple, just smaller
I want that world.
Actually it is. Sorry.