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Re:Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup by saithound on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:06AM (#24753222)
> The features they are adding are often unnecessary and designed to help them further lock down the web

Reminds me of the Browser Wars of yesteryear, when Microsoft and Netscape invented their own unnecessary, easily abused, proprietary HTML tags, such as blink and marquee.

[1] https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/blink-marquis-tag/

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Re:Feds may target Google's Chrome browser for breakup by ethbr0 on Monday October 12, 2020 @08:05AM (#24753543)
It's easy to look backwards, with the benefit of more robust and fast (relatively!) standards bodies, and shake a finger.

But my memory at the time is that there were essentially no effective, consensus-based evolutions of web standards, because everything was so new.

Even the idea of running executable code in a browser at all was "That's weird. Is this a thing we want to do?" and resulted in 10+ variations (of which javascript ultimately triumphed).

It was certainly a worse time for the consumer, and web developer, as essentially everything was broken on every platform but your target w/ your target plugin installs.

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