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I feel like HTML and CSS could remove 90% of the functionality and only affect 1% of developers, then we could get some actually good web browsers.


The issue here is backwards compatibility with web pages that will never be updated. Nobody wants a browser that works with “most of the web.”


Well they did get rid of the blink tag

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/blink_elem...

And Gopher support…


And soon XSLT. https://xslt.rip/


True. After two decades, though.


For this was invented Quirks Mode.


Oh god. I world have been happy if I'd never heard that term again... flashbacks. :P




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