The makers of the browsers (Apple, Google, Microsoft) didn't want to optimize for someone else's (especially not Adobe, not even Unity3D, if anyone remembers th

The makers of the browsers (Apple, Google, Microsoft) didn't want to optimize for someone else's (especially not Adobe, not even Unity3D, if anyone remembers that) plugin. So WHATG and W3C made their own 'html5 canvas' that didn't truly get official until 2014 (but was adopted earlier in browsers). https://web.archive.org/web/20141106212543/http://www.cnet.com/news/html5-is-done-but-two-groups-still-wrestle-over-webs-future https://web.archive.org/web/20141106212543/http://www.cnet.c...