Comment by dlcarrier
20 days ago
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.
20 days ago
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