This is interesting, because at every step along the way, each actor took the locally optimal step -- webmasters wanted to serve up working pages to their users, and new browser vendors wanted their users to get pages with all the supported features.
Yet, in the end, we end up with a mess for everybody. What could have been done differently to end up at a good solution? I guess having universally defined and complied with standards would have helped, so a browser could just say "I support HTML 1.3".
Yet, in the end, we end up with a mess for everybody. What could have been done differently to end up at a good solution? I guess having universally defined and complied with standards would have helped, so a browser could just say "I support HTML 1.3".