@lritter I think maybe if there were more competition among browser vendors it would help establish a new de facto standard set of extensions (a subset of the current standards); it's a push and pull between what websites use and browsers can support, but the current standards are too many and too complex (and, I assert, that leads to security issues, but I could be wrong)

@lritter well, I might be more paranoid than the average user, so don't conclude on my account.. but if it's dead, then it was killed by google pushing new standards at w3c for years, making it difficult for other browser vendors to keep up...

@lritter the "growing assumption" that you pushed against seems rational to me

@lritter opening urls has become more dangerous as the attack surface of browsers has grown

@lritter well, the proliferation of new js apis isn't making browsers more secure...