Let this be a warning to young developers tying into browser platforms. For all the openness of web standards, let's remember that browsers are proprietary. I

Let this be a warning to young developers tying into browser platforms. For all the openness of web standards, let's remember that browsers are proprietary. If a browser vendor decide to do something (whatever it is, good or bad), there is pretty much nothing users or developers can do, we saw it with IE6 for a long time, we now see it with Google Chrome too. AFAIK browser plugins were considered part of those web standards (see [0] and [1]) [0]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/infrastructure.html#plugins https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/infrastructure.html#p... [1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/system-state.html#plugins-2 https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/system-state.html#plu...