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Those that embrace Chrome have literally helped Google with their masterplan to turn the Web into ChromeOS.

Safari, regardles of Apple's selfish reasons, is the last man standing.

So your point is that the web sound be less capable, and Safari is the last browser trying to cap the web's knees.

That seems to me like the point of all these recent articles.

That seem like an ideal situation. Which 'web' are you referring to? The standards compliant, semantically structured one, or the Google 'web'?

I'm not buying the dichotomy. Apart from anything browser-specific, JavaScript's weirdnesses ought to demolish this ideal as a real possibility. It's just a question of how broken, how crufty.

How about how open? Browser specific JS is a misnomer because blink and V8 have ~70% market share. This is a bad thing for the open web. It was a bad thing when it was IE6, and allowing chromium based browser to grow beyond 70% while Google are firmly in the driving seat is more dangerous.

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