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192 mentions on Hacker News by 119 people: 14 stories, 178 comments · first 2019-03-13 · latest 2026-10-18

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  1. …implement jpegxl decoders in C/C++. I would really hope that isn't the case. Seems like they agree: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
    comment by IshKebab · 2025-03-27 · in Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit
  2. …this into a web standard unilaterally; standards need consensus. Here is the Mozilla discussion: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336 And here is the WebKit discussion: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issu…
    comment by JimDabell · 2025-03-14 · in I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox
  3. …have a positive view of the API [1], but it doesn't look like development has started [2]. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1053 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1923880
    comment by AshleysBrain · 2025-02-05 · in Chrome 133 Supports DOM State-Preserving Move with moveBefore()
  4. …or refactors are more effective when it comes to the most core component of the browser. [0] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
    comment by dralley · 2025-01-08 · in Servo Revival: 2023-2024
  5. I stand corrected. It was the absolute legends at Igalia. See links and explainer here: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/528
    comment by troupo · 2024-11-19 · in Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
  6. …the unsuitability of these specifications in the Mozilla standards positions repo: Web Bluetooth: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95 Web USB: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/100 Web MIDI:…
    comment by JimDabell · 2024-11-19 · in DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
  7. …hub.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/93 Here’s where Mozilla was asked for their position on it: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/350 Here’s the process Blink goes through to get a new feature like this going:…
    comment by JimDabell · 2024-11-15 · in Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
  8. …just ship their own implementation, all others be damned. Here's the most egregious example: WebHID https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459 --- start quote --- - Asked for position on Dec 1, 2020 - One month later, on Jan…
    comment by troupo · 2024-11-02 · in Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131
  9. …Direct Sockets would be unsafe and inconsiderate given existing cross-origin expectations FWIU: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431 > Direct Sockets API > Permissions Policy: https://wicg.github.io/direct-sockets/#perm…
    comment by westurner · 2024-11-02 · in Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131
  10. …analysis and conclusion "harmful" that Google sycophants and Apple haters couldn't care less about: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431#is...
    comment by troupo · 2024-11-02 · in Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131
  11. I found this issue indicating a bad idea for end user safety: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431
    comment by chrisvenum · 2024-11-02 · in Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131
  12. …of an otherwise essentially trusted app That’s what the Narrower Applicability section is about < https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431#is... >. It exposes new vulnerabilities because of IP address reuse across…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2024-11-02 · in Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131
  13. …used in Firefox, maybe there's a chance that Google would see the benefit in picking it up? [1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
    comment by SoothingSorbet · 2024-10-27 · in How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs
  14. …proposal [1], resolved it few years later [2], and finally implemented it since last year [3] [1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194#is... [2] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194#is... [3]…
    comment by kenrick95 · 2024-10-25 · in Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
  15. …matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
    comment by illiac786 · 2024-10-24 · in JPEG XL in iPhone 16 Pro Yields Incredible Results
  16. Direct link to the comment on the thread: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/340#is...
    comment by trekz · 2024-10-18 · in Mozilla is currently not investing in PWAs (2021)
  17. …on the topics API - https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/111 also mentioned in https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/622 The Register article on the topics api last year…
    comment by bryanrasmussen · 2024-09-15 · in Using the Topics API (Chrome Only, Opposed by Firefox/Safari)
  18. …Google Research recently committed to help implementing it, in Rust, for inclusion in Firefox. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064 : “the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a…
    comment by Someone · 2024-09-09 · in JPEG XL: Industry-leading image compression and fidelity
  19. …Direct Sockets would be unsafe and inconsiderate given existing cross-origin expectations FWIU: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431 Direct Sockets API > Permissions Policy: https://wicg.github.io/direct-sockets/#permis…
    comment by westurner · 2024-09-01 · in Chrome 130: Direct Sockets API
  20. …[3] (of course). 0: https://github.com/whatwg/fs/blob/main/proposals/MultipleReadersWriters.md 1: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/861 2: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5172892632875008 3:…
    comment by AlexErrant · 2024-07-17 · in How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite
  21. …after compression dictionary work unblocked there concerns about dictionaries. As of 4 days ago! https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1042
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-06-22 · in Exposition of Front End Build Systems
  22. You can read through the conversations to understand more of the context https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/100#is... https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95#iss... https://github.com/mozilla/standards-po…
    comment by madeofpalk · 2024-05-03 · in Firefox Webserial Addon
  23. …was seen as reasonable by Mozilla. I'm not sure what progress has been on the proposal since then. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154#is...
    comment by madeofpalk · 2024-04-16 · in iOS404
  24. You can check why Mozilla and Apple have opted to not support this. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154 https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/28 Neither Mozilla or Webkit are satisfied that the proposal…
    comment by madeofpalk · 2024-04-16 · in iOS404
  25. …such a stark "Google couldn't care less" dark-world fantasy. This is literally the timeline: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459
    comment by troupo · 2024-04-10 · in Show HN: DualShock calibration in the browser using WebHID
  26. Hasn't FireFox been dragging their asses on @scope? https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/472 It took years to just convince them of the need for it. And I'm not sure anyone got convinced vs Chrome had already shipped it…
    comment by Rapzid · 2024-03-06 · in Open-sourcing our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0
  27. …For Position on Mozilla Zstd Support (2018) has a ton of interesting discussion on dictionaries. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/105 The original proposal for Zstd was to use a predefined stastically generated…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-03-06 · in Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome
  28. …around the corner either. Happy (/hope) to be corrected. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4180 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/990
    comment by 000ooo000 · 2024-02-29 · in An HTML Switch Control
  29. …in Chrome anyway, then people like you complain about Apple being mean. Here is Mozilla’s position: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154 Here is Apple’s position: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/28
    comment by JimDabell · 2024-02-02 · in The web just gets better with Interop 2024
  30. …specs is nicely outlined publicly and transparently as part of their standards-positions project: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/100 I'm kinda glad it's not implemented in my browser, to be honest, because the whole…
    comment by lol768 · 2024-01-20 · in Platform Tilt
  31. …requirement? I think they explained their position pretty well here, regardless of whether I agree: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95#iss...
    comment by hobobaggins · 2024-01-03 · in Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly
  32. …but no sign of any movement on it: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#scroll-to-tex... https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753933…
    comment by gwern · 2023-12-28 · in ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
  33. …been marked as a “wontfix” in the Firefox bugtracker as they consider it a harmful feature [0] [0]: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336
    comment by KANahas · 2023-12-28 · in Firefox Sync actually works
  34. Mozilla are dragging their heels on @scope: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/472 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/implement-css-scope-rul... Someone who clearly didn't get it was wasting three years time "well…
    comment by Rapzid · 2023-12-27 · in CSS Is Fun Again
  35. …and Safari, but Firefox are dragging their feet. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/at-scope https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/472
    comment by montroser · 2023-12-27 · in CSS Is Fun Again
  36. …any version of Firefox, for the same reasons. Here's Mozilla's "considered harmful" GitHub issue. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95
    comment by dwaite · 2023-12-14 · in QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices
  37. …cherry-picked one every time. [1]: https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-yubikey-phishing-webusb/ [2]: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58 [3]: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/238 [4]:…
    comment by soraminazuki · 2023-12-10 · in Firefox Keeps Getting Faster
  38. …dictionary to encode & Moz didn't want to have to "standardize" one specific dictionary. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/105
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-09-22 · in Chrome feature: Compression dictionary transport with Shared Brotli
  39. …has taken a negative position against this standard. https://privacysandbox.com/proposals/topics/ https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/622
    comment by brandon · 2023-08-08 · in Blocked by Cloudflare
  40. …a non-spec onto other browser vendors, shipped it to prod, and then "updated" the spec later: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459
    comment by troupo · 2023-08-02 · in I'm betting on HTML
  41. …find the proposal itself, so I could see what the proponents considered the virtues of this to be. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852 https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... I stopped reading…
    comment by seo-speedwagon · 2023-07-30 · in The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”
  42. …when they have been proven otherwise. [1] https://chromestatus.com/feature/5680923054964736 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/622 [3] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics
    comment by troupo · 2023-07-28 · in Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
  43. …harmful to the openness of the Web ecosystem and are not good for users. The full response is here: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is...
    comment by cpeterso · 2023-07-26 · in Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
  44. …up again, here are my thoughts on the spec: - Mozilla is already publicly and officially opposed ( https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is... ), on principle ("Any browser, server, or publisher that implements common…
    comment by nneonneo · 2023-07-26 · in Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification
  45. > Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web. https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852 I guess they would.
    comment by capableweb · 2023-07-26 · in Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
  46. …outline which goals are objectionable and why. Mozilla folks did a good job at articulating that in https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is ... Well, you asked for it, so here goes. WEI (IIUC) requires (at least the…
    comment by nobody9999 · 2023-07-25 · in So, you don't like a web platform proposal
  47. …which goals are objectionable and why . Mozilla folks did a good job at articulating that in https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is... A couple of things I should've included in that post and didn't: * It's important…
    comment by yoavweiss_ · 2023-07-25 · in So, you don't like a web platform proposal
  48. …was raised in February for both Mozilla[1] and WebKit[2] and neither have been responded to. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/753 [2] https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/142
    comment by dhx · 2023-07-25 · in Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
  49. Given TFA, it looks like you can ask Mozilla for a position by opening a GitHub issue at https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions
    comment by CaliforniaKarl · 2023-07-25 · in Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
  50. …[5] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... [6] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is...
    comment by urda · 2023-07-25 · in Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web