> Google keeping nonstandard APIs in Chrome for its own convenience opens the possibility of other websites using them. Either through ignorance - they don't kn

> Google keeping nonstandard APIs in Chrome for its own convenience opens the possibility of other websites using them. Either through ignorance - they don't know it's deprecated and nonstandard - or because they trust Google to not break them, and don't care about standards. The result is a web that works only in one browser. This is what happened to XMLHttpRequest, or have you already forgotten that it was originally an ActiveX control? There is not (and there never will) a single way to define how the web is built.