There's no reason we can't keep backward compatibility as long as it's desired.
No one is "throwing away the web", what ever that even means.
We can always put the current stuff in a nice museum and pay tribute to the technological importance it achieved during the evolution of the web! vs an evolution of any seriously flawed specific piece of technology.
Also, this really is not a "want", rather the real problems are creating real needs.
That is exactly what Servo is doing.
Does "ditch" and "junk" mean something other than the common usages of these terms to you? The only assumption I'm making is that you're writing in english.
I was suggesting to ditch specific technologies, not the "web" as you put it. So it's... what the web means... That I referred to.
Go on. Use them. I dare you. See how long you last.
or invent your own platform and see how quickly everyone switches over to it. I'm sure the only thing stopping this from happening is nobody has tried. Sure!
<section> and <article> are new semantic containers for content.
or .main or any number of similar classes.
<main>?
I didn't say that html/css/doesn't need improvement. that's changing the subject. The question is: why do the people here so eager to "ditch" (as in totally discard) html/css/js.