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Switch to Mozilla? They are positive to this, and Webkit also. That is often the case, Chromium just has a faster turn-around then the others so usually are first to implement.

The discussion about this started a year ago with the individual browsers and WHATWG.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1624978



From the Google discussion on this change back in March, located here [1].....

> "We haven’t engaged with other browser vendors regarding this change yet, but plan to submit a spec change proposal once the change is approved for Chrome. Since PRs to the HTML spec require one more vendor to support (and none to oppose), we’ll reach out to other vendors before sending the PR."

The first comment response reads.....

> "Although the spirit is right, this isn't quite the correct approach procedurally. It's best to submit a specification pull request before any Intents are approved, to better help promote cross-vendor discussion, and allow the API owners to assess interop risk by looking at the spec (and accompanying web platform tests). The specification pull request doesn't have to be approved, but it should exist, so that there is a public record of what we are implementing at the level of detail of a full specification."

The next comment agrees.....

> "I'd like to second that. A part of the reason we have our launch process is to evaluate interop risk, which requires engaging with other vendors to see if they'd follow our path. A spec PR would enable them (as well as the API owners) to evaluate what this change actually means and allow them to express their opinions on it. FWIW, I'd be surprised if they weren't supportive of this, assuming we prove that this change is web compatible."

So here we see on full display Google acknowledge that they have enough market share to ignore other vendors, awknoledge that it is not in the web's best interest to do so, and yet somehow that part of the discussion was allowed to completely die out.

So yeah, switch to Mozilla. The conversation they had on the topic was much more aligned with what I want to see from my supply chain than the conversation I saw over at Google.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/hTOXi...


> awknoledge that it is not in the web's best interest to do so

The two people you are quoting don't appear to be Google employees. Maybe I'm wrong, but it appears that the Google employees are usually using @chromium.org or @google.com email addresses.

Edit, correction: at least one of the people is a Google employee using a personal email address. I regret the error. Nonetheless, I don't agree with the characterization of the responses.


Not a suitable answer for website owners. Even if they literally asked all their customers to switch, end users won't.


The issue isn't the cross origin alert change. It's the TOS required and opt-out process.


Microsoft Edge released 92.0.902.62 today which now re-allows the dialogs in cross domain iFrames. We are suggesting that our user base moves from Chrome to Edge.


Even MS couldn't catch this regression? I wish MS could.




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