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martindale on June 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to pr...

> these prototypes broke the web badly

So what? The web wasn't ready to mandate JavaScript for rendering HTML, so why should we double-down on "not breaking things" now, instead of when it mattered?

tatersolid on June 22, 2019 [–]

> So what? The web wasn't ready to mandate JavaScript for rendering HTML

“The web” has been using JS to render HTML since Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2000 and IE5.

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