On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:04 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > It feels like this bakes into the C++ language the idea that a > machine only ever needs a single implementation of the web platform. > > I (and I think many others at Mozilla) think that users are better > served by competition among implementations of the Web's technology, > since it allows competition to better serve the interests of users > and allows more flexibility in the evolution of the platform due to > fewer mistakes getting quickly baked in to the platform by > compatibility. > > This makes me think it's a bad idea to standardize a Web View API as > part of C++.
Is having a Web View API fundamentally incompatible with there being multiple implementations to select from? Suppose the API had a mechanism to query a list of available implementations, and you could specify which one to use when instantiating a web view - would that address this concern? Cheers, Botond _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
