Introducing a new HTML element – welcome &lt;clippy&gt;
The person writing this has to repeat frequently that they&#x27;re OK with the &lt;toast&gt; element; it&#x27;s quite funny how hard they try not to upset people.<p>But their view of the situation is completely correct; just because this one feature might be useful (heck, when Microsoft dumped XMLHttpRequest on us that  was incredible too), doesn&#x27;t change the fact that we&#x27;re now living in a web where Google does whatever it wants, adds whatever it wants to Chrome, and the web is at its mercy. If they wanted to add &lt;blink&gt; it&#x27;d get added and supported, and other browsers would have to follow lest they become incompatible.<p>There&#x27;s not really much of a difference between the web today and the &quot;Best viewed in IE&quot; web, and that&#x27;s sad. There&#x27;s a difference in developer goodwill, and of course things aren&#x27;t as buggy as they were back then so it overall doesn&#x27;t feel like you&#x27;re &quot;stuck&quot; with Chrome like it did with IE, but... you are. You&#x27;re just OK with it.