[disconnected]

So this is a good thing because the gatekeeper is Google instead of Facebook?

How's about adhering to standards? We gave Microsoft a hell of a time for not adhering to standards, but Google gets a free pass now? Because "performance"? (read: some negligible gains on some synthetic benchmarks)

Then let's stop pretending: let's scrap the W3C and go back to the good old days of "Best viewed on Netscape Navigator at 800x600".

[ko27]

Let's also complain about Mozilla because they are removing Flash support and thus breaking backwards compatibility. It's obvious that they are all 'evil'.

[jimktrains2]

Was flash a standard? Also, flash still works, it's a click away with a button in the location bar for sites that try to use it.