1 year ago

The web is supposed to be a platform where multiple implementations deliver the same standards: there’s a new emphasis on having browsers actually deliver that interoperability. Interoperability has always been the promise and the frustration of the web, but getting different browsers to do the same thing remains onerous for many web developers. Given that W3C, TC39 and other web standards processes all require implementations in multiple browsers and engines before a proposal can become a standard, you might expect all browsers to behave in the same way for features that are based on web standards.

Take the developer at Google described by https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-byers/?originalSubdomain=ca, director of Google’s web platform team, as “one of our biggest proponents of the web platform”.

The community created conference sessions, mailing lists, dashboards and bug trackers focused on interoperability: things Jägenstedt describes as “trying different things to see what’s going to work to give us all incentives to improve the web platform for web developers”.