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> Didn't this effort start with Mozilla and not Google?

Maybe round one of it like ten years ago did? From what I understand, it's a Google employee who opened the "Hey, I want to get rid of this and have no plans to provide a zero-effort-for-users replacement." Github Issue a few months back.



> 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


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...>


Smaug is the Mozilla engineer they were talking about:

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


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


You can remember their name forever now!


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


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


Hilarious, thanks. Sorry you have issues with memory.




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