The Internet isn't a technology; it's a collection of standards. Much like the industrial revolution wasn't about mechanisms; it was about interchangeable parts

The Internet isn't a technology; it's a collection of standards. Much like the industrial revolution wasn't about mechanisms; it was about interchangeable parts and standardization of forms, such that they could be usefully combined without eternal one-off customization. In the short-run, your approach is sound. In the large, a web technology isn't a web technology if my browser doesn't support it. Seems that the people in charge of Dart decided it had crossed the event horizon from situation 1 to situation 2.