Well, the chrome people have a hand in writing those standards…

Chrome basically is the standard. If Chrome adds it, developers will use it.

And this is exactly the problem.

Google is a better steward of their default position than Microsoft was, by a mile, so far.

But the web and the internet is more important than Google.

Use Firefox. :)

So does Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla. Google/Chrome does not write or edit the standard on their own.

Chrome follows a lot of draft standards that they themselves submitted. Not really the same thing.

The standard is edited and written by Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla.