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The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Premature Standardization - Das Yahoo UI Blog über die Wehen mit standardisierenden Organisationen.

The web is made of open standards. This was a significant factor in the web’s displacement of proprietary application platforms. Openness is hugely attractive, so much so that the web dominates over competitors with better technologies. The difficult tradeoff that comes with a standards-based approach is that it is difficult to innovate. As a result, the basic technologies of the browser have been stalled for a decade.