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Re:Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS by dylan604 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @03:08AM (#18299051)
>I would honestly welcome a ground up complete reimplementation of the web if browser vendors all decided to work together on one.

Was that the sound of a pig flying by, or the sound of hell freezing over? Any time specs can be interpreted, there will always be these differences in browsers. Maybe we could not call them specs, and just call them suggestions?

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Re:Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS by laumars on Thursday October 25, 2018 @04:13AM (#18299320)
Ostensibly I do agree with you however that is the reason I phrased it "browser vendors working together" rather than "a new spec being written".

However, as you said, the chances of that happening are remote. Even putting personal agendas aside (eg Google wanting to control content via AMP), the web in it's current form is "good enough" that there's no real drive to reinvent the wheel for something with such deep market penetration already.

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