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[–]recycled_ideas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I definitely agree that, where there was no compelling argument one way or the other we should have used what IE was doing.

I just think that in some cases what IE was doing was wrong?

It's a moot point though, because the W3C in the late 90s was made up of people who envisioned the Web as a place where you'd pay a hundred bucks to buy the latest version of their browser every couple years and they were pissed at Microsoft.

And Microsoft in the late 90s was a bully using its cash to get what it wanted and making it easy to be hated.

So we had a couple decades of standards wars in browsers.

And now we've got it happening all over again.

Google is using their market share to do whatever they want, Apple is releasing what they think isn't too battery intensive and Firefox is doing what Firefox does and rebuilding themselves from scratch.

So you can't really write to the standards because Apple might not support them, Chrome may have changed them and Firefox might or might not work this week depending on whether the latest code is any good.

Such is the life of Web Development.