In a world where we're ranting about Flash (a non-standard, closed-source web plug-in with a few ad-hoc, reverse-engineered, quite-possibly-illegal alternative

In a world where we're ranting about Flash (a non-standard, closed-source web plug-in with a few ad-hoc, reverse-engineered, quite-possibly-illegal alternative implementations) being buried and replaced by a web standard---even a web standard primarily driven by a handful of web development incumbents, but a standard nonetheless---we are truly through the looking glass.