The Chrome and Web Developer Relations team is significantly expanding in 2022. Open roles span program management, Chrome extensions, CSS, rendering, DevTools, web performance, the Privacy Sandbox, and web ecosystem. The team is seeking program managers, developer relations engineers, technical writers, and infrastructure specialists to contribute to various initiatives, including Chrome Dev Summit, Google I/O, web.dev, and improving the overall web platform.
This post explores the concept of web compatibility and whether it can be quantified. It draws parallels to the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve, questioning if a similar metric could represent the trade-off between compatibility and feature availability. The post also examines how browser vendors' incentives influence feature adoption and proposes leveraging compatibility data sources like caniuse and web platform tests (WPT) to prioritize compatibility improvements. Potential tools, such as a compatibility bot and automated blog updates, are suggested to highlight these improvements.
