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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When it came out in its time it wasn't bad compared to the alternatives. Now there is certainly better, but honestly it will still take a long time before we can choose a standard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Now that would be something, developers choosing a standard.

mandatory xkcd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes, but for the web in particular, with the current obsolete technologies that were designed to create websites with a simple interface, it is like continually trying to keep an old man with 15 terminal illnesses alive.