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  • It’s just too complex to implement HTML / CSS / JavaScript and all the other stuff correctly from scratch.

    It depends on what you’re trying to do really, if you’re trying to keep pace when Google then yeah it’s insurmountable (Microsoft literally couldn’t do it), but if you just want basic functionality then that’s actually rather static and unchanging.

    Though it doesn’t help when sites use JS for literally everything, and the vast majority do so incorrectly.



  • So it’s an “open standard”, not in the sense that anybody can contribute to the development, but in the sense that the details of the standard are open and you can learn about them.

    The format itself is an XML version of the existing Office document formats, and they grew organically over decades with random bugs, features, and bug compatibilities with other programs. e.g. There will be a random flag on an object that makes no sense but is necessary for interoperating with some Lotus 1-2-3 files that a company had, who then worked with Microsoft to support back it in the 90s. Things you can’t change, nobody really cares about, but get written down because the software already implements it (and will emit sometimes)













  • I imagine the stones would survive it, just fall out of the vanishing gauntlet. It’s not like the stones were a part of it, they were just being held in place by it, but then there’s the question of whether or not the contents of people’s pockets got snapped as well, we know the pager Fury had didn’t count as “part of him”.

    And no, they used the ant man tech to go back in time, no stones there.