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by ComodoHacker 2520 days ago
This low-tech format ensures the specs remain readable and unambiguous.

Imagine you've lost most of web technology after a nuclear apocalypse or something and have to recreate it from specs. You have no software guaranteed to render HTML correctly and completely. (We don't have it even now BTW.) It's like bootstrapping a compiler toolchain on an entirely new architecture. You have to start with assembly, and it looks awful.