[mid-kid]

Supporting old web standards is neat, and you make your goal with this clear in your article, but I can't help but wonder if just using a subset of the newer standards isn't a better idea in the long run. HTML5 standardized a lot of the browser-specific features that plagued websites, and did away with a lot of ways to do the same thing with subtly different results. Supporting all these old methods and standards for compatibility purposes is part of the reason modern web browsers are so huge (the other part being overzealous standards), so I wonder if someone couldn't go and try to figure out a subset of the current standards that are simple to implement, so simpler browsers can be made for older machines, and people have an easier time making sites that can run on old machines without digging into arcane behavior of old browsers, and having to hackily support both.