That hasn't been true for years. Browser vendors are pushing ... • Aaron Parecki

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apenwarr https://twitter.com/apenwarr • Apr 10
That creates a chicken-and-egg problem: browsers won't adopt it unless it's popular. It won't be popular unless browsers adopt it.

Chicken-and-egg problems create usually-insurmountable barriers to adoption.

That hasn't been true for years. Browser vendors are pushing new features that they want or think will be helpful. Here are some examples: https://github.com/WebKit/explainers

See also all the Twitter threads of people getting angry that Chrome implements something before it's standardized.

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Fri, Apr 10, 2020 9:16am -07:00

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Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- apenwarr twitter.com/apenwarr
  
  The browser owners are happy to implement things that help with lock-in, such as Login with Google, Pay with Apple, etc. That's how we got where we are today. That's not chicken-and-egg for them, that's investment. Distributed systems that avoid lock-in need a different plan.
  
  Fri, Apr 10, 2020 5:21pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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