I disagree. Chrome, by virtue of its popularity, market power and technical prowess, pushes through new features. In addition to that, they also port features f

I disagree. Chrome, by virtue of its popularity, market power and technical prowess, pushes through new features. In addition to that, they also port features from ChromeOS. Most of these features are either not standard yet or would never be. For example, the WebUSB APIs are still in draft community status but is already there in chrome. Presumably because they created it for chromeos, ported it to chrome and then submitted it to the standards body - in that order. They are definitely going to continue this. I don’t see chrome publishing and getting a standard approved before implementing it at all. It’s also how IE6 holdover came about. Web developers aren’t supposed to rely on non-standard features because it’s tight coupling and will bite you if the browser ever stagnates. That’s the lesson I learnt from the whole IE6 saga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebUSB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebUSB