The prominent web designer & longtime standards supporter, Jeff Croft, mentions in his recent blog how the web designers have totally lost the experimental, innovative attitude.
The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, since its inception, has served as the governing body of the web by devising its standards - sets of recommendations and rules that determine how the myriad languages, software and protocols interact on it.

The W3C, founded in 1994, aimed at providing the standard rulebook to help the web’s disparate developers in building compatible applications. Owing to the ‘browser wars’ between Microsoft and Netscape the late 1990s, developers often needed to make a website compatible either in Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer, but rarely both. The W3C reduced that friction and paved the way for an open, standardised web.

However, critics argue that rather than turning to new technologies, web designers are still heavily depending on W3C approval and thus imposing its restrictions on themselves. Croft argues that web standards as recommended by the W3C should not be abandoned, but that developers should be free to experiment with the emerging technology.
The creator of the famous Dojo Ajax toolkit, Alex Russell, echoes Croft’s views. He believes it’s high time web developers begin experimenting with new methods.