> 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

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simoncion 20 hours ago | parent [-]

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...>

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JimDabell 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Smaug is the Mozilla engineer they were talking about:

https://github.com/smaug----

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simoncion 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah, that was my problem... I didn't put enough minuses after the nickname. ;)

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tptacek 20 hours ago | parent [-]

You can remember their name forever now!

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simoncion 19 hours ago | parent [-]

You appear to have forgotten how to scroll up and notice that the name of the OP is not my name. ;)

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tptacek 19 hours ago | parent [-]

No, I know, I'm just being silly. Sorry, I didn't mean to attribute that sentiment to you.

	▲	righthand 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hilarious, thanks. Sorry you have issues with memory.