> 1. Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
A reference implementation web browser would not have had popup blocking back in the Bad Old Days of IE6 dominance, and would probably never have become relevant enough to impact web standards in the 21st century.
> 2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
They tried (and still do try) to do exactly this, but you need market share for it to matter; even if Mozilla outright controlled the standards committees, Google would simply implement whatever they want and developers would use it due to the browser monoculture.
> 3. There is no 3.
Perhaps in the author's next attempt he could eliminate 1 and 2 as well.
A reference implementation web browser would not have had popup blocking back in the Bad Old Days of IE6 dominance, and would probably never have become relevant enough to impact web standards in the 21st century.
> 2. Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
They tried (and still do try) to do exactly this, but you need market share for it to matter; even if Mozilla outright controlled the standards committees, Google would simply implement whatever they want and developers would use it due to the browser monoculture.
> 3. There is no 3.
Perhaps in the author's next attempt he could eliminate 1 and 2 as well.