I expect to see WASM tooling expose that Google's stewardship of Chromium has left many, many, features to be desired. You can blame it on the bureaucracy and legacy cruft of other companies like Microsoft and Apple, but at the end of the day there's just so much stuff you can't do with web apps (and oh wow just happens to align with Google's Ad and Cloud businesses).
Can you list the features you mean that Firefox and Safari have that the Chromium project has left out because of Google's business interests? Be interesting to see.
My comment doesn't assert Firefox or Safari are ahead on features. My comment is about Google/Chrome still being culpable as a market leader despite Apple (Safari) and Microsoft (IE legacy) likely slowing down browser development in general.
I don't understand what you're comparing Chromium to if you're saying it doesn't have features for business reasons, when the other browsers also don't have those features.
In almost every standards working group Google holds the most seats. It'd be naive to say that those in the groups are working only and only for the common good and don't pursue their employer's interests.
> In almost every standards working group Google holds the most seats
Can you substantiate this?
> It'd be naive to say that those in the groups are working only and only for the common good and don't pursue their employer's interests
This may be partly true without backing up what you were saying. You were saying something much stronger, which is that Google is deliberately holding back the internet. Now you're saying, "Well they aren't only working for the common good" which is just insinuation. Making the internet work better helps Google, which is why they do all sorts of things, from making Web browsers, to open sourcing codecs, to laying undersea cables. That doesn't imply anything negative.
Not to say there isn't anything negative. Just that your points don't seem to back that at all.
I agree that making the web work better is good for Google. But making the web good and advertiser friendly even at the cost of users and their privacy is better for them.
