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All the stale things

Divya Sasidharan leads a deep discussion with Jerod Santo, KBall, and Nick Nisi on what’s stagnating in browsers. What has remained the same in browser tech over the last 20 years that remains a pain point in working with browsers? For example - Focus in browsers hasn’t changed much in 20 years. Why is that and how do we go about making all the stale things in browser tech better?

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Notes and Links

Segment 1: APIs that were not developed

Segment 2: Hypothesizing

  • Why didn’t these APIs get anywhere?
  • What would’ve needed to happen for them to have progressed?
  • Browser wars; the move towards chromium

Segment 3: Shout-outs!!

(in order of appearance)

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