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by Devasta 525 days ago
The web is, was, and forever will be stuck reinventing shitty versions of things that they could have had decades earlier if they stuck with XML.

Custom elements, client side templating, form validation against schemas, they had it all and threw it away.

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Yup. They’re learning why XML needed to be complicated, one simplistic bolt-on HTML/CSS/JS layer at a time in a musical chairs fashion.