Google has made sure that _nobody_ can implement a browser with hostile takeovers the "standards" committees and pushing the standards solely in the direction of corporate interests, bypassing consumer interests. The whole point was to make them so complicated it would be impossible for someone without an insane budget to implement one.
Proof of this is the whole advertising sandbox crap... what the hell does an HMTL Client "need" an advert sandbox for?
Breakups are painful. Ultimately they're better for everyone.
I think I share the same opinion: I think this is going to be a very painful break with the previous paradigm, but a much needed one, and that actually this version of the current paradigm is quite bad: browsers only survive when Google pays them money.
Instead this will put all browsers on a much more even playing field, and perhaps it will force governments and citizens to realise that free software takes someone to write it.
I have long thought that it would be nice to have a new Web-alternative based on XHTML. With XHTML you get a clean break from the legacy early HTML cruft and design errors as well as avoiding the corporate browser vendor designed HTML5/HTML Living “standard”. XHTML is essentially the last Web markup standard actually designed (and not rubber stamped) by the W3C and I think it is telling that even today Tim Berners-Lee’s own personal website uses XHTML.
Google has made sure that _nobody_ can implement a browser with hostile takeovers the "standards" committees and pushing the standards solely in the direction of corporate interests, bypassing consumer interests. The whole point was to make them so complicated it would be impossible for someone without an insane budget to implement one.
Proof of this is the whole advertising sandbox crap... what the hell does an HMTL Client "need" an advert sandbox for?
Breakups are painful. Ultimately they're better for everyone.