You reminded me of Google Gears (disclosure: I worked on it), which was supposed to have played a part in getting the W3C committee to work on HTML5 seriously.

You reminded me of Google Gears (disclosure: I worked on it), which was supposed to have played a part in getting the W3C committee to work on HTML5 seriously. Likewise, HTTP2 languished for a long time, but took off quickly once SPDY was implemented in Chrome + Safari + Firefox. As I was told, the best way to spur a standards body into action is to threaten to make them irrelevant.