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by shadowgovt 1067 days ago
In general, Googlers tend to be in favor of initiatives like this.

You have to remember, from their point of view they are writing the web software and when a user agent is non-compliant, it gets in their way. UAs with weird quirks translate to impossible-to-reproduce bugs, so the default bias is in favor of standardization and regularity.