.@w3c member @igalia is experimenting with a new way to give developers a voice in the roadmap of what ships in Web browsers
Igalia @igalia
13 Jul 2020
Igalia is pleased to announce Open Prioritization: An experiment in crowd-funding prioritization of the web commons open-prioritization.igalia.c… youtube.com/xCRxNVbUqhk
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The Web platform is arguably already one of the most open platform for developers: its technologies are developed in the open, gathering input and feedback from anyone; and all the major browser rendering engines are developed as open source projects
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But as anyone who has tried patching browsers will know, being open source doesn't mean it's straightforward to contribute changes to browser engines, which are based on huge and complex code bases
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.@igalia is proposing a crowd-funding program to bring their expertise in browser development across all the major engines to add well-identified features based on developer's pledges - we will be watching the results of that experiment with high interest!

Jul 13, 2020 · 1:06 PM UTC
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