this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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A win is when we have forced them to abandon the wretched plan. Them taking it elsewhere with a different name, only to be brought back in the future isn't a win - it's more or less the folly the Trojans committed with the Greek wooden horse.
It's a much less broad, though. That's a win right?
I don't trust Google's word that they will keep it that way. Besides, would you have accepted this proposal if WEI wasn't proposed first? It's a form of manipulation.
Sites inside webviews can already communicate with the app running them, I don't see how this proposal in this form causes any additional problems
The same can be said about WEI on browsers. Just wait till it becomes a problem - only problem is that you won't be able to escape it at that point.
Except websites can't just communicate directly with the OS like they can in webviews