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Why do you think AXR would have the same interpretation across all browsers? Dont you think somone cough will make their own implementation that fucks up the rendering/layouting just for the heck of it? cough


The reason is because that's one of the main pieces of the project. Providing a library that browsers can USE, not IMPLEMENT.

Why would anyone do that? That's WAY too much work just for fucking something up just for the heck of it.


> Why would anyone do that?

Business model of proprietary software, return on investment on lock-in of customers.


As long as the reference implementation gets a decent head start, any re-implementers will practically be forced to maintain complete compatibility with it. This model works quite well for programming languages.


Care to enlighten me on examples of languages that got a decent head start as a reference implementation, and are wide-spread?


Umm, all of them? Can you name a mainstream language that didn't start with a reference implementation?




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