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Not strictly true, okay. Still, it's nothing new that browser vendors just add the things they think may be useful and see what sticks (which then eventually e
by pgeorgi 8y ago
Not strictly true, okay.
Still, it's nothing new that browser vendors just add the things they think may be useful and see what sticks (which then eventually ends up in some standard at some point like asm.js/WebAssembly - or fizzles out like NaCl).
These days with vendor prefixes, polyfills and generally a focus on backward compatibility there's typically some care taken to not leave users of other browsers in the dust.
That's very different from past efforts like, for example, ActiveX which made a full (but undocumented) Win32 environment part of the web browser design.