Though note that submitting and then completely ignoring the standards group (which has also happened) is not much better than not submitting at all. Especially if the submission doesn't actually give much more than the name of the API and a general idea of what it does.
Look at their off-line standard. They took it to the standardization body who changed it so completely that it was a different beast. Google did the right thing and phased out their old legacy stuff and switched to the standard. In fact IIRC they didn't even put the legacy stuff in Chrome.
Though note that submitting and then completely ignoring the standards group (which has also happened) is not much better than not submitting at all. Especially if the submission doesn't actually give much more than the name of the API and a general idea of what it does.