I meant standards. Installed base equals de facto standard. Design by free market may be faster and more efficient than design by committee, but it has some pretty annoying ramifications, too. Worse, it ends up costing the public money and resources. Take the 56K modem industry .
Problem is, their proposals are so far removed as to be almost completely incompatible.
That means designers have to spend countless hours cross-designing pages to work in both browsers. You pays your money, you takes your choice. It's a trap. Wait for committees to come up with Internet standards and we wait forever but emerge with some insurance against dead ends. Digital video recording service from Microsoft.