[Iv]

I am bitter that XML/XSLT lost in favor of HTML/CSS. It promised a stricter separation of content and formating and would probably have required less javascript to do the crucial functions.

Unfortunately, among the crucial functions nowadays are the silly cosmetics, the parallax scrolling, the animated backgrounds, that allow marketers to pretend to have a website when all they have is formating for zero content. We failed to provide them with this fluff.

[pjmlp]

Me too, we have to thank HTML 5 for it.

Yet almost 10 years later, they are still playing catchup with native apps.