> Did we legally force browser vendors to support web protocols and standards?
Did you not pay attention? Microsoft tried exactly that, for close to a decade. The only thing saving the ecosystem was their own incompetence at developing an at least half decent browser.
Now Google is trying the exact same trick, and unfortunately, they are doing much better. And the thing that's probably going to thwart their efforts is not the open market, but the closed market of Apples "absolutely-nothing-but-Webkit" walled garden.
Did you not pay attention? Microsoft tried exactly that, for close to a decade. The only thing saving the ecosystem was their own incompetence at developing an at least half decent browser.
Now Google is trying the exact same trick, and unfortunately, they are doing much better. And the thing that's probably going to thwart their efforts is not the open market, but the closed market of Apples "absolutely-nothing-but-Webkit" walled garden.