Maybe now people will understand that the "open web" is just another power grab by another group in the "dirt war" of computing. The scam is to give the peasants lots of shiny-looking stuff while foisting a crap programming model, Byzantine standards and now DRM. And because the peasants don't have a clue what computers are capable of they gush at every little pseudoinnovation while the W3C plays catch up with the past. The rest of computing suffers from this problem but the web is the absolute worst of the lot. Elegance and rigor is last on their list of priorities, after convenience to the implementor. And yet, elegance is of the utmost importance to users in the long-run. So the reality is that they place implementors _before_ users, because their aim is to win the dirt war and be written into history in a favorable light.

Another way to sniff out dirt warmongers is to look for reactive behavior. And the W3C is the most reactive organization, constantly pushing one thing only to do a U-turn later (e.g. asm.js) when those choices threaten their own self interests. The whole idea of the browser as any more than one application on the web - for viewing static documents - is nothing more than a quick power grab by people eager to get as many installs as possible. "Look, we can shoe horn an application into this thing and increase market share". And so the idea of a networked, general purpose computing platform (on which document browsers are but one application) has its air sucked out by the browser with some programming stuff bolted onto the side. The more elegant arrangement is a HIGHER idea, one that is general and powerful, but currently benefits nobody in the dirt war.