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		yegle 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex ... You could say the existing browser vendors pushed to make the HTML standard more complicated to the point that there's no chance for a newcomer to compete with the existing ones.

Voultapher 3 days ago [–]

Ladybird would like a word.

Though I agree that the web standards are extremely large. Not sure if they are too large, given their cross-platform near OS layer functionality.

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