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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by Const-me on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:50AM (#36983583)
> departure from standards

There were no new HTML standards between 4.0.1 in 2000, and 5.0 in 2014.

> enforcing its own vision of the web thanks to its enormous market share

Modern web is only possible because Microsoft implemented non-standard XMLHttpRequest in IE5. However, they didn’t do that to enforce a vision. The goal was practical — save network bandwidth for their Outlook Web Access product.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by Macha on Thursday August 03, 2023 @07:05AM (#36984094)
ES5, 2009, CSS 2.1, 2011. HTML is not the only standard for a web browser

Also in that period, Microsoft was failing to comply with the standards for CSS 2, standardised in 1998, ES3, standardised in 1999, and PNG, standardised in 1996.

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