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Thanks, that's a great article. May be worth a repost since it's been 5 years since it was last posted (according to my cursory searches).

Somebody posted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10199163

I wonder then how come so many browsers are allowed to be Webkit based

Browsers are "allowed" to do whatever they want, but the W3C is very unlikely to endorse some feature as a standard if Webkit is the only codebase that intends to implement it. Which is basically what happened with WebSQL.

ffs