Hold back Chrome standards, you mean? Features that work in Chrome but not in other browsers. There are even features that work better in Safari than Firefox. Not everything Chrome pushes should automatically become the standard.

Personally, I don’t care about most of those Chrome specific features. I use Safari because it’s fast and battery efficient. The fact that it’s not made by a company whose main business is advertising is a nice bonus.

Sure, Apple has an advertising business too, but it’s nowhere near the scale of Google’s.

This is how it actually works:

Browser vendors come up with improvements.

The W3C board (which Apple and Google are a part of) gets to vote on the implementations and suggest changes.

The new feature either becomes a standard or not.

Apple wields their power here to block any new feature that could make a web browser compete with native apps where Apple can extract 30% of all purchases made through apps.

Apple isn't making suggestions for any changes to the proposals, they just block any new feature that might let browsers become as functional as native apps, purely out of greed.

Or, you can go see with your own eyes how web standards actually work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200329112109/https://twitter.c...

That's a different topic.