When I was a child in elementary school, a standards committee decided to change my native language.
They replaced the spelling of most words, and many grammatical rules.
We were forced to obey these changes, any use of the old rules was counted as mistake in school.
Back then, many older books were still using the old rules.
By the time I left high school, almost no books with the old rules were left. All had been reprinted. All newspapers had switched. Autocorrect programs had been updated with the new rules as well.
In a matter of 8 years, an entire language had changed its orthography and parts of its grammar, top-down, and it worked out fine.
I’m sorry, if an entire human language with 120 million speakers can be updated top-down like that, a web spec can as well.
They replaced the spelling of most words, and many grammatical rules.
We were forced to obey these changes, any use of the old rules was counted as mistake in school.
Back then, many older books were still using the old rules.
By the time I left high school, almost no books with the old rules were left. All had been reprinted. All newspapers had switched. Autocorrect programs had been updated with the new rules as well.
In a matter of 8 years, an entire language had changed its orthography and parts of its grammar, top-down, and it worked out fine.
I’m sorry, if an entire human language with 120 million speakers can be updated top-down like that, a web spec can as well.