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Amazingly, the web folks seem to be doing OK on this front. They often manage to miss the xkcd#927 trap. What I see (admittedly the simplified public version) is more like:

- Here's a standard that kind of works and everybody is using it.

- Hey, we invented this cool new thing that isn't part of that standard but people seem to like it! (XHR, Canvas, ...)

- OK everybody let's put that into the standard as well so we can all agree on how it works. Thanks!

There was no way to "force Microsoft or Apple" to make a web browser, either, and yet they both did, and made it part of their operating systems.