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Alby has started to return a {created: true} object from webln.enable() calls, which is not in the spec (the spec says to return an empty Promise).

Now some websites are relying on that {created: true} object being present and assuming webln doesn't exist otherwise, which makes it so they won't work on any other extension or environment that correctly implements the webln standard but not the "Alby standard".

In this case it might be a silly example, but this is how protocols die.

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Laser 2y ago

I spent long enough in distributed systems to learn that schemas, not specs, were the appropriate way to enforce backwards compliability.

A friend of mine launched https://buf.build/ just a bit ago. He's looking to bring Google's intetnal protobuf secret sauce to all.

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