[HN Gopher] Interop 2022
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       Interop 2022
        
       Author : feross
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2022-03-03 17:02 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | llimos wrote:
       | The Acid Tests were funner
        
       | dmitriid wrote:
       | My reaction to this is, I quote:
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       | Note how none of the bullet points address anything of
       | significance.
       | 
       | https://open-ui.org/ which would _actually benefit users_ isn 't
       | mentioned at all.
       | 
       | It will be the same useless bullshit for the next 10-20 years,
       | sabotaged by Google.
        
       | csnover wrote:
       | Honestly, I understand this, and I don't.
       | 
       | I know that ensuring interoperability across implementations has
       | always been the key to a healthy web platform. I get that Interop
       | 2022 is not about interoperability with individual sites, or
       | about focusing on one browser. But if you want a web that
       | actually has more than one engine so that interoperability
       | initiatives like this even exist or matter, you need to make sure
       | that you still _have users_.
       | 
       | The top webcompat issue for the past two years has nothing to do
       | with editing, or viewports, or pointer events. It's Microsoft
       | Teams not working[0][1]. The Bugzilla ticket has the highest
       | priority, highest severity[2], and it is still broken. For two
       | years.
       | 
       | I'm aware of the irony of Editing API being one of the interop
       | problem areas since it was basically a "try to write down how IE
       | works so all the IE-only sites with text editors can work in
       | other browsers" spec, and now here I am advocating for Mozilla
       | and Apple to basically just go do that again, but when you are in
       | a position of weakness sometimes you have to take the L and be
       | pragmatic instead of bleeding users as you say "well it's
       | Microsoft's fault so Microsoft should fix their shitty code".
       | 
       | It feels so tone-deaf to say that that bug reports from webcompat
       | were used to guide decisions on interop focus and then ignore
       | that 3 of the top 5 issues are voice and video. I mean, I'm sure
       | that they were used, but I don't know how everyone who is in a
       | good position to fix it seems OK with just ignoring this
       | situation.
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25070
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/webcompat/web-
       | bugs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is...
       | 
       | [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623340
        
       | jitl wrote:
       | Interesting. Firefox's handles deleted nodes in ContentEditable
       | quite differently from other browsers we tested, so I'm glad to
       | see contentEditable at least on the "investigation list". Here's
       | my pet issue:
       | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735608
        
       | nonrandomstring wrote:
       | When "the web platform" can render the majority of pages in plain
       | text on my w3m browser, over a low bandwidth or Tor connection,
       | then let's talk about interoperability.
        
       | pentagrama wrote:
       | What means the image with the numbers 71, 74, 73? Amount of
       | compatibility issues from each browser? A score? (x out of 100 I
       | guess?) The image should have footer explaining that. In the text
       | do not say explicitly what it is.
        
         | pentagrama wrote:
         | Update: The image alt tag says "Interop 2022 scores.
         | Chrome/Edge 71, Firefox 74, and Safari 73." It also should be
         | in the body text, and is out of 100 I guess.
        
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