> It's natural to blame Google for this... [b]ut really, it's that site's developer's fault for using nonstandard features You talk as if blame is a conserved

> It's natural to blame Google for this... [b]ut really, it's that site's developer's fault for using nonstandard features You talk as if blame is a conserved quantity. Just because it's the developer's fault for doing something, doesn't necessarily mean that it's not Google's fault as well for enabling them to do so. When Google makes these technologies, they are aware of how they will, or can, be used, and that it may involve some fragmentation of the web. Aware of these consequences, they went ahead and released the technologies anyways. In my mind, that entails them a degree of responsibility for the consequences. It's also difficult for me to take them at their word when they say "we think this problems an acceptable cost to move the web forward," because they also happen to benefit from this fragmentation. I don't think they're being intentionally duplicitous, I just don't think it's possible for anybody to make fully rational decisions in such a situation.