I think you can see an example closer to the disaster in the comic with the attempt to standardize a required video format for HTML 5: http://lists.whatwg.org/

I think you can see an example closer to the disaster in the comic with the attempt to standardize a required video format for HTML 5: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun...