> I'm not deriding the web -- it's the last free and open space we have left in an ever-eroding tech land grab No it isn't. It has degenerated into being only

> I'm not deriding the web -- it's the last free and open space we have left in an ever-eroding tech land grab No it isn't. It has degenerated into being only browsable in its entirety by Chrome, with all other "browser vendors" except Apple having given up due to sheer complexity and infeasibility to keep up - Opera, Microsoft, and now Firefox. That's what you get by putting Google (ie WHATWG, consisting of Chrome devs) into the role of defining so-called "web standards", with W3C (a self-declared "standardization body") depending on Google's and other big player's money having done nothing meaningful for years except brittling and foobaring CSS.