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Re:The Era of the Trident Engine by mycall on Sunday January 26, 2020 @08:57AM (#22152082)
Browser do much more than just HTML5 parsing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_...

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Re:The Era of the Trident Engine by acdha on Sunday January 26, 2020 @02:14PM (#22154029)
Yes, that was my point? Even if it was plausible to switch to XHTML, that’s a small and rather insignificant part of browser code bases.
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