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by drob518 138 days ago
The issue here is backwards compatibility with web pages that will never be updated. Nobody wants a browser that works with “most of the web.”
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Well they did get rid of the blink tag

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/blink_elem...

And Gopher support…

And soon XSLT. https://xslt.rip/
True. After two decades, though.
For this was invented Quirks Mode.
Oh god. I world have been happy if I'd never heard that term again... flashbacks. :P