Suppose that's what they did with HTML5. What would happen then? Nobody would use it. Proprietary solutions to do what WebGL and other HTML5 features do would

Suppose that's what they did with HTML5. What would happen then? Nobody would use it. Proprietary solutions to do what WebGL and other HTML5 features do would pop up, and people would use those. Instead, what we've got is a situation where you can actually turn off Flash and use the majority of websites without any degradation.