[nolok]

> For better or worse, the web has always been driven by specifications, rather than implementations.

Surely you're joking ? Having things done by specifications first has been extremly rare, pretty much everything rather followed the "make the specification after the fact to be whatever X browser has done and is used". Protocols, markup, css, javascript, the whole thing was done by implementation.

[Carpetsmoker]

There's a difference between "standardizing an implementation so everyone can use it" and "just use this standard implementation".