John Socks on Nostr: nprofile1q…9yg87 I think people who see Google now as "big" alongside Apple and ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqz9ldjwyj8yvuw2qk2xaeuhgjyw7qvxdptevxhe69s2mcpntks7js99yg87 (nprofile…yg87) I think people who see Google now as "big" alongside Apple and Microsoft forget that in the beginning it was a defensive move. Especially against Microsoft, who was fresh from a history or trying to leverage their browser into proprietary and non-w3.org standards.

This bears emphasis:

A standards compliant browser was necessary to Google.

Without it? A lot of bad things could come to pass. Not least MS and Apple could just divide the spoils of their proprietary worlds.