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!
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).
