[shadowgovt]

The thing about network effects is this:

When you're making a new technology to interact with existing technology, and following the specification results in your new technology failing to work with what's already there, nobody will care if you blame the standard or everyone's mis-implementation of the standard.

They'll consider your malfunctioning tool as damage and route around it... Until you become big enough that you can be the existing implementation other people have to adapt to.

Every commonly-used browser either has something like this buried in its implementation or has a date-stamp of first release older than everything else out there.