Browsers’ bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs.

The W3C’s strategy for “saving the web” from the corporate-controlled silos of apps is to replicate the systems of control that make apps off-limits to innovation and disruption. It’s a poor trade-off, one that sets a time-bomb ticking in the web’s foundations, making the lives of monopolists easier, and the lives of security researchers and entrepreneurs much, much more perilous.