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TIL about "origin trials" - a neat way of trialing experimental implementations of new potential web standards in an opt-in manner, intended to avoid the chaos caused when experiments prematurely become de-facto standards github.com/GoogleChrome/O…
Here's a live list of currently active trials in Chrome developers.chrome.com/origintrials/#…
The Motivation and Explainer document for origin trials is fascinating github.com/GoogleChrome/O…
"Usage of these experiments is constrained to remain below Chrome’s deprecation threshold (< 0.5% of all Chrome page loads) by a system which automatically disables the experiment on all origins if this threshold is exceeded."
"The time-limited nature of an origin trial means that these features will self destruct after a few months [...] no large site can use these features in production thanks to the usage constraint, so we cannot be pressured into extending origin trials by powerful parties."
More background thinking on this approach from @slightlylate in 2015 medium.com/@slightlylate/…
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