[tpmx]

This is the greatest crime against the web, IMO.

The growing complexity for the past decade has been driven almost entirely by Google. I'm now pretty convinced they did it as a part of an explicit strategy.

It's so insidious - on the one hand they are improving the web, on the other hand, the complexity they are driving makes the web more vulnerable.

[samatman]

> they did it as a part of an explicit strategy

Yep. First they embraced the browser by building some nice shiny, er, Chrome on top of WebKit.

Then, they proceeded to extend it, and extend it, and extend it. While paying Mozilla to stay in business, to avoid antitrust attention.

Now they've very nearly extinguished the other engines.

What can I say, they learned from the best.