Don't Break the Web
The cluster centers on debates about browser vendors removing or restricting features (like plugins or non-standard tech) versus the 'don't break the web' principle, which prioritizes backward compatibility to avoid breaking sites and preserve the open web.
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Genuine question: why is it bad for the web?
That would be incompatible with the mantra 'don't break the web', I'm afraid.
Why shouldn't the open web still be a thing?
They will not as it will cause a serious backlash from web developers for making it a Googlenet viewer rather than a web browser.
Take a lesson from the user backlash that happens every time a browser removes a feature: Don't do that. The best you can do is encourage developers to use an alternative. The worst you can do is to force it on people who don't share your point of view.
You don't. And that is not a problem worth sacrificing the web for.
The post you're replying to specifically said that it "worked for the web". Nobody's trying to take away the open web.
If this is how it works, enforcing this ... would end the web. How much thought was put into that ?
It's not the browser developers jobs to police the web.
"I disabled one of the core technologies of the modern web and it breaks things."