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by namedgraph 1971 days ago
We wasted 20 years by trying to replace one form of brackets with the other (XML vs. JSON). WHATWG and the browser vendors are responsible for this. Just like for the fact that we still don't have a machine-readable web. FAANG crawls the structured schema.org metadata like nobody else can and profits from it, and the rest of use are left with the HTML5 and Javascript crap.