Google is killing the open web, part 2

>Mozilla bent over to Google's pressure to kill off RSS by removing the “Live Bookmarks” features from the browser

They both were just responding to similar market demands because end users didn't want to use RSS. Users want to use social media instead.

>This is a trillion-dollar ad company who has been actively destroying the open web for over a decade

Google has both done more for and invested more into progressing the open web than anyone else.

>The WHATWG aim is to turn the Web into an application delivery platform

This is what web developers want and browsers our reacting to the natural demands of developers, who are reacting to demands of users. It was an evolutionary process that got it to that state.

>but with their dependency on the Blink rendering engine, controlled by Google, they won't be able to do anything but cave

Blink is open source and modular. Maintaining a fork is much less effort than the alternative of maintaining a different browser engine.

>Google has both done more for and invested more into progressing the open web than anyone else.

One could also make that case about Microsoft with Microsoft office in the '90s. Embrace extend extinguish always involves being a contributor in the beginning.

>Blink is open source and modular. Maintaining a fork is much less effort than the alternative of maintaining a different browser engine.

Yeah and winning Asia Physical 100 is easier than winning a World's Strongest Man competition, and standing in a frying pan is preferable to jumping in a fire.

I'm baffled by appeals to the open source nature of Blink and Chromium to suggest that they're positive indicators of an open web that any random Joe could jump in and participate in. That's only the case if you're capable of the monumental weightlifting that comes with the task.