The Web We Want: tell the browser makers directly

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very cool concept. developers from big tech made a collective and are fielding suggestions from the audience, so to speak:

The Web We Want was created as a low-friction way for designers and developers to surface ideas they have for improving the web. We ask them to highlight problem areas and identify ways they’ve tried to work around/solve them (if any). We don’t ask for a solution, though sometimes folks suggest a direction they think could work, and we welcome that.

imo, this exemplifies what the “good” side of working in big tech is. you have a sizable impact and actually want to try and make the experience better.

paging @vivivi — there’s been a few times you had some good ideas!

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Very interesting project! I’m interested to see if it results in anything, and I’ve been browsing through the requests already submitted. This one about the ogg format seems like a no-brainer to me. This one about requesting users to ignore the same-origin policy peaks my interest because of all the javascript apps I write–I would love to have it, but I can see arguments for the other side as well (mostly I’m remembering all of the malicious Chrome extensions that people allowed without giving it a second thought).

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