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'There was an unspoken assumption that the web is built by professional web developers,' he writes. Web developer and advocate Jeremy Keith points out something else that's wrong with this idea. That someone of considerable stature in the Chrome project would think otherwise should be a red flag. Don't wait for them to notice it in a development build. If the standard has to change, tell people about it. You build the site using the agreed-upon standard and it works as long as the web does. That's actually why there needs to be stable, well-communicated web standards вЂ“ so developers don't have to do ridiculous things like continually test their websites to make sure they're still working. But second, and far more disturbing, is the notion that web developers should be continually testing their websites against early releases of major browsers.

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She writes: 'Breaking changes happen often on the web, and as a developer it's good practice to test against early release channels of major browsers to learn about any compatibility issues upfront.'

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The tweet comes from Chrome software engineer and manager Emily Stark, who is of course speaking for herself, not Chrome, but it seems safe to assume that this thinking is prevalent at Google. Clearly no wider consultation took place when it ought to have done for a change like this.Д«ut there was a follow-up tweet that's actually far more disturbing than the news of alert() disappearing. When the web developer community finds out Google is going to break a ton of websites through a tweet, you know communication has failed. The other key problem here is the lack of communication beyond the close-knit community of browser engineers. It is crucial that decisions about what should and should not be part of HTML happen are not only taken by standards bodies, previously the W3C and now WHATWG, but that those decisions should come after lengthy public discussion and testing. Individual browsers may still support them, but they are no longer valid HTML. That is, they're gone from the official web standard. Try using applet or AppCache вЂ“ both are gone. Most browsers don't support the blink tag anymore. To their credit, browser makers have generally been very good about making sure changes don't break the web.

The web is the web in large part because of this high level of backwards compatibility. Part of what's amazing about the web is that you can still go to the very first web page and view it in any browser. 'Big company bad' is hardly news at this point, especially if the big company is Google with its browser market dominance, but there's more going on here than that and it's worth picking apart a little.Дiscontinuing major features is rare. Google gets what it wants and the web breaks. Google puts its idea forward on its own mailing list, programmers at Apple working on Safari's WebKit and at Mozilla working on Firefox are invited to agree with the change on WHATWG's GitHub page, and they do so with plans to implement the functionality.

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