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Re:A Form of Madness - Dive Into HTML5 by GHFigs on Saturday January 02, 2010 @07:58PM (#1027962)
I recommend reading this, incidentally by the same author: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/11/02/why-do-we-have-a...

It won't answer your question, but it will give you insight into the messy way the web evolves, which is about the closest thing to an answer you'll ever get.

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