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by marshray 4707 days ago
Every major browser vendor has pushed for some stuff and resisted other stuff. Only extremely rarely does anything new make it to 'cross browser compatible' status.

There are far far worse systems for evolving widely used platforms.

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> There are far far worse systems for evolving widely used platforms.

That's fine, but perhaps it would behoove Mozilla to not participate in dooming the web as a competitive application platform simply due to a misguided belief that the web is defined by HTML/CSS/JS?

Agreed, CSS/DOM/JS need to be replaced, before the web can truly be an application platform.