>they then proceeded to let it stagnate for the better part of a decade...
That is one of the side effects of being on top without the worry of competition AKA being a monopoly. Despite Chrome being my favorite browser, this is one the things that worries me the most when everyone yells "Port all browsers to Webkit!!!", we will inadvertently repeat history.
Southpark best visually described it in one of their episodes [1].
+1. I try to figure out where the "Port all browsers to WebKit!" crowd is coming from, but the only reasonable speculative theory that I can think of is that they weren't there for the first go-round.
That is one of the side effects of being on top without the worry of competition AKA being a monopoly. Despite Chrome being my favorite browser, this is one the things that worries me the most when everyone yells "Port all browsers to Webkit!!!", we will inadvertently repeat history.
Southpark best visually described it in one of their episodes [1].
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_Co...