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Originally Posted by testpie
Welcome to the web as the W3C sees it - where the more the number of convoluted and gratuitous standards you can make, the "better" everything is.
Or to put it another way, if the W3C built motorways, the number of lanes it had, speed you could go and distance to be kept between cars would vary depending on the car you were in, colour of eyes you saw the road through and whether or not your car manufacturer had the greatest market dominance, and so just did everything differently, just for the shit of it.
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Interesting way to look at it, but it's not the w3c's fault really. It's actually the browser company's fault during the browser wars in the 90's. They just made up their own tags that were independent of any standards. The w3c made recommendations on what tags should do what, and how they would work, but none of the browser makers listened. It's not like the w3c is out to fuck anyone over, or make things hard on people. They wanted the complete opposite actually.