'Open standard' has nothing about something being simple and straight forward. What CSS is trying to do is complicated because of a whole bunch of pragmatic reasons.
Last time a browser tried to 'move things forward', ngate aptly summed it up as
Google breaks shit instead of doing anything right, as usual.
Hackernews is instantly pissed off that it is even possible to
question their heroes, and calls for the public execution of
anyone who second-guesses the Chrome team
I never claimed that the existing browser vendors can’t do it incrementally — they certainly can. What I wrote was: “... there's not going to be another web browser engine created by an independent party.”
'Open standard' has nothing about something being simple and straight forward. What CSS is trying to do is complicated because of a whole bunch of pragmatic reasons.
Last time a browser tried to 'move things forward', ngate aptly summed it up as