> Distributed standards inherently become ossified and are unable to innovate. I don't think it's as simple as that. When websites were proudly stating that t

> Distributed standards inherently become ossified and are unable to innovate. I don't think it's as simple as that. When websites were proudly stating that they were "best viewed in Internet Explorer", there was very little innovation in the web platform, but then when Mozilla/Firefox and Chrome became popular, distributed innovation improved. Things are a little more complicated now that Chrome has a dominant market share, but I'd argue that it is actually Safari (and Apple's monopoly control over it on the iPhone) that is most holding back the web now.