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		nolok on Feb 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) > For better or worse, the web has always been driven by specifications, rather than implementations. Surely you're joking ? Having things done by specifications first has been extremly rare, pretty much everything rather followed the "make the specification after the fact to be whatever X browser has done and is used". Protocols, markup, css, javascript, the whole thing was done by implementation.

arp242 on Feb 20, 2020 [–]

There's a difference between "standardizing an implementation so everyone can use it" and "just use this standard implementation".

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