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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Now that would be something, developers choosing a standard.

mandatory xkcd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.