Amazing how people are control minded
Just FYI, the standards today are controlled by the same clube of 33 you hate because of corporations blabalbla....
https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
so if you think that to be against a type of technology thinking that you are a freedom rebel so you have been fooled.
Personally it's much much more fun to program in Actionscript that Javascript, I would say javacrap...
and take much less time, allowing me enjoy life with my beloved ones.