Re: [W3C TCP and UDP Socket API]: Status and home for this specification

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me> wrote:
> My argument is that it's not materially different from existing permissions APIs. Sometimes the promise is rejected, sometimes it isn't. (Note that either outcome could happen without the user ever seeing a prompt.) The code works in every browser---some just follow the denied code path, and some follow the accepted code path. That's fine: web pages already need to handle that.

But they won't. Once web developers figure out the Secret Sauce to
make it work in browser X and browser X has enough market share,
they'll just add Secret Sauce and require X. And everyone competing
with X will have to add support for Secret Sauce, whether they want to
or not.


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Received on Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:10:48 UTC