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| ▲ | tomaskafka 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177605 And I believe the OP is right. Keep people busy working with changes that don’t move the needle, each of the three large platforms wants to lock in the serious use cases into their native apps. |
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| ▲ | nkrisc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If web was as good as iOS native, for example, Apple wouldn’t get their cut. |
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| ▲ | jorisw 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | What does that mean as related to 'competition in the browser space' ? | | |
| ▲ | KPGv2 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Apple has a browser. Apple sits on the CSS steering committee. The assertion is that the major browser owners (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla) don't want competition, so they keep CSS complicated. All four of these companies are members of the CSS Working Group. So the ability to do this is within their power. |
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| ▲ | oblio 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is a known consequence of standards bodies: they get infested by vested corporate interests who generally, in the best case scenario, want the standard to include their entire pre existing implementation. In the worst one they just filibuster and veto proposals until they can't. This is a phenomenon that dates back to IBM doing this in the 60s-70s-80s. |
