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When it came out in its time it wasn't bad compared to the alternatives. Now there is certainly better, but honestly it will still take a long time before we can choose a standard.
Now that would be something, developers choosing a standard.
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Yes, but for the web in particular, with the current obsolete technologies that were designed to create websites with a simple interface, it is like continually trying to keep an old man with 15 terminal illnesses alive.