We were in WAY worse shape back then. IE6 was closed source, under-resourced (after they gained market dominance), and MS had every incentive to suppress the pr

We were in WAY worse shape back then. IE6 was closed source, under-resourced (after they gained market dominance), and MS had every incentive to suppress the progress of web technologies once they ran the table. I’m not saying we shouldn’t all be rooting for the other players today and keeping a close eye on Google, just saying there is no way for Google to do nearly as much to hold back the web as MS did back then, even if they wanted to.