> Now we have a monopoly of a much bigger, more user-hostile browser(s) and the web "standards" effectively under the control of a single company I’m not sayin

> Now we have a monopoly of a much bigger, more user-hostile browser(s) and the web "standards" effectively under the control of a single company I’m not saying thing are great now but it was definitely worse in the IE6 days. Back then it was a literal monopoly. At least currently we do still have WebKit (Safari) and Gecko (Firefox) plus Blink is open source, which Trident (Internet Explorer) never was. Better yet, the alternatives these days do still work 99% of the time. Whereas in the early days of Firefox and Opera, and in the later days of Navigator/Communicator, you basically had to accept that a disappointingly high number of sites didn’t render properly at all. In an ideal world we would see Chrome’s market share much lower, but I’d still take the current ecosystem over the IE6 days in a heartbeat.