> What is the hold up? Why isn't this happening? One of the problems, and arguably one of its strengths, with the modern web is that there's no single "entity"

> What is the hold up? Why isn't this happening? One of the problems, and arguably one of its strengths, with the modern web is that there's no single "entity" that owns everything. A large part of why this isn't happening is that there are too many parties involved in the web - browser implementers, standards maintainers, and web developers. If you want to introduce a new feature to the web standard, it's not enough to convince one browser implementer to add it - web devs can't use a feature that only one browser supports! You need to convince the standards body to adopt it, and to convince browser implementers (plural) to support it, and this takes a lot of time and coordination effort. In the case of Visual Basic, you just need to get some PM in Microsoft to add it, and it'll be added.