And with the death of plugins, farewell to any chance of someone trying to get the browser to do something new and interesting without having to suck up to one of the big browser makers. Things like SVG started out as plugins, and the web, and the internet as a whole, would have been a lot worse off if we had to wait for years of bikeshedding by browser makers to implement new specifications. The web&#x27;s a little less open today.