On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 9:30:27 AM UTC-4, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> In general, I'm worried about groups that are rather isolated and that
> have non-Web background members making decisions that go against the
> Web wisdom gained from painful experience.
The WebGL group wasn't/isn't isolated from the general web. I chaired the
group when the original decisions were made, the other members of the group
were all core developers of WebKit, Chrome, and Opera. That's still the case.
> WebGL already made the Web little-endian forever.
And good thing it did! The "Web wisdom" also had a bad habit of making
non-pragmatic decisions in the past in order to appease everyone with a seat on
whatever committee was making whatever recommendation to some working group.
Thankfully, that's gone now, but it's not like the Web is a bastion of
fantastic API design. It's getting better, though.
- Vlad
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