I am a little confused by this comment.  What status quo?<p>Silverlight is deprecated.  Flash is (at least seems to me) taking its final breaths.<p>HTML5 pushed many web native standards for open media: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;Guide&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Using_HTML5_audio_and_video" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;Guide&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;Usin...</a>.  In fact, the HTML5 video&#x2F;audio was so open that YouTube had to kill a Chrome extension that allowed users to use YouTube as a music source without advertisements or video: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;insider&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;21&#x2F;how-youtube-killed-an-extension-with-300000-users&#x2F;#gref" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;insider&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;21&#x2F;how-youtube-killed-...</a>.  (Side note: the history of what went on with Streamus is woefully simplified in this article...but let&#x27;s just say the Streamus dev was open from Day 1 with Google but only after his extensions started getting traction they shut it down.)<p>Anyway, moral of the story is this would be a standardization that steps _back_ (in many ways) to the days of Flash&#x2F;Silverlight dominance...not standardization of the status quo (at least IMO).