On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:32 PM Jeff Gilbert <jgilb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I would never have guessed that any committee would have thought the failure > of the graphics API proposal was that it didn't go far enough.
I think of web_view as a change of direction compared to the graphics API proposal, rather than going further in the same direction, because web_view does not involve the committee itself hashing out APIs, it just leverages existing APIs standardized elsewhere. > I should also mention that as a non-majority browser engine developer, this > is an existential threat to Mozilla, and in turn, the web. Could you elaborate on why that is? Naively, I would think that this proposal would just bring new users to the web platform (namely, users of C++ applications which previously used other facilities for rendering and interaction, and will now use web_view). > What can I do to help keep things on the tracks here? If this really is an existential threat to the web, then convincing other browser implementers to oppose it would be a good first step. So far, other browser implementers I've talked to seemed to be indifferent to or supportive of this proposal. There is a meeting planned in September for browser implementers to discuss another C++ standardization topic (TLS support in the Networking TS) in the Bay Area, with :ekr planning to attend from our side. As you're in the area, you could consider attending, and taking the opportunity to bring up this topic as well. Papers outlining arguments against a proposal in written form are also very helpful. I've tried my best to communicate the viewports made by other Mozilla engineers in the previous dev-platform thread on web_view, but a 90-second oral statement made by me to a subgroup of a dozen people does not carry nearly as much weight as a written paper that's in the record for every committe member for read and ruminate on. Thanks, Botond _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
