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by dathinab 309 days ago
that is just not true

web is mostly based on standards which always have been supper lenient, messy und had massive gaps of unclearity mainly because it was more "lets somehow standarize what browsers already do" then anything else

through I guess you could say that the degree to which you can polyfill JS is more lenient then many thing is good and that did help with extensibility,

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You say that's not true but then you don't contradict what I'm saying. How were browsers able to do anything, while maintaining backwards compatibility, that needed standardizing later?