Google's Chrome Passes 70% and Web Standards Are Dying
According to data released a few hours ago (for September), Google's Chrome now commands over 70% of Web requests/traffic. If this is more or less accurate, then given the imminent ruling on Google and Chrome in the United States it might become a "talking point". Here's the graph:
Earlier today in Daily Links we included this Linux Foundation-connected (fake articles) and Microsoft-sponsored site stating that: "Security issues and web compatibility are pulling in different directions, as Google and Firefox discuss dropping XSLT support from browsers".
Google controls Mozilla and Microsoft now technically controls Firefox. Mozilla and Firefox do not think for themselves, they just follow their masters.
The Web is quickly becoming devoid of any standards. It's just down to brands. Which "brands" of browsers does a given site support? The Web might eventually become little but a transport layer/protocol for Chrome, sort of like MSIE over 20 years ago.
An associate of ours says he has been thinking more about open standards and how mention of them has been removed from EU documents. Software patents inhibit open standards as well, he argues. "Open standards are kind of a prerequisite for FOSS."
Well, almost all EU documents are nowadays locked behind proprietary JavaScript or "Webapps", not Web pages. That's a separate but related problem. █