> We originally had web standards for a reason, now we're doing this non-standard stuff.
Web standards have always been a mishmash of competing standards. Eventually one spec will win out and that will be the next standard.
Web standards have always been a mishmash of competing standards. Eventually one spec will win out and that will be the next standard.
Pretty much all the major browsers implemented websql, which then never made it into a standard as there were no competing implementations [0]. Nice while it lasted.
Do you mean gopher, nntp?
Both are somewhat dated examples, that is pre-HTML5.
Once the web became mass-market, standards pretty much became a complete mishmash in every area.