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On the web, the real power lies with users, then browser vendors, and only last with the specifications.
Drawn from what Ian Hickson said
What Ian Hickson actually said
- Ian Hickson British software engineer
The reality of the situation was that the power lay entirely in the hands of the users. The users chose browsers. A browser vendor that ignored what the users wanted would lose market share. Market share is everything in this space.
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↗Power dynamics in web specificationsln.hixie.ch
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