Actually, many features of the modern web (DOM, XmlHttpRequest, box-sizing: border-box) were implemented by IE first. Unfortunately it's not in the best intere

Actually, many features of the modern web (DOM, XmlHttpRequest, box-sizing: border-box) were implemented by IE first. Unfortunately it's not in the best interest of anyone capable of engineering open/distributed platforms to actually do so. Why would they? It's way easier and more profitable to create something on your own terms, something you can control. I would risk that it's better for the customer. People are flocking from WordPress to SquareSpace, from self hosted SMTP servers to Google, from private hosting to cloud hosting. Is this a good thing in the long term? I don't think so either, but doing it any other way would be heroism and we are short on heroes.