[mattlondon]

The same could be said about individual browsers. With web standards there is precedent for doing the "right" thing rather than just going along with whatever one product has already implemented and calling it a standard.

E.g. there were recent posts here on HN about WebSQL (already implemented in Chrome so many hundreds of millions of users) being replaced by a design agreed upon by all interested parties rather than just what Google wanted for Chrome and Gmail. Indexdb may not be what everyone wanted of course, but that is beside the point.

There is a place for experimentation and trying stuff out, but just shipping something first shouldn't mean you get to dictate future standards or be guaranteed backwards compatibility or a zero-effort upgrade path. Standards should learn from and build upon earlier implementations and mistakes. They should not be slaves to what has gone before.