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miki123211last Tuesday at 7:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

This is the price we pay for openness and decentralization.

On one side, we have Apple giving us great APIs but telling us how to use them. On the other, we have W3C being extremely conservative with what they expose, exactly because of things like this.


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pwdisswordfishqlast Tuesday at 9:55 AM

This is the price we pay for stuffing browsers with tons of imperative APIs that the browser has no choice but to implement to the letter, since analysing how they are actually used runs afoul of Rice's theorem.

phoronixrlylast Tuesday at 7:59 AM

This is the price we pay for bloat...