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Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>
Date: 2021-06-15
I'm against html5 for quite a variety of reasons, one of them is that isn't an standard (or "living standard" as WHATWG says) but an eternal draft.
Which only Google Chrome (spyware browser) can fully implement , leaving all other minor web browsers behind.
And the second is that while it exists, it harms the WWW as we know it , along with , say , JavaScript (websites are heavily infested with this nowadays) , and thus they render useless without it.
I use a modified variant of Luakit[1] which is a browser configurable and extensible by Lua, it fits all of my needs, although if I actually browse for example , the ActivityPub social media platforms I have to use Falkon[2] because it crashes Luakit , also most of them require JavaScript enabled for them to work , and I just can't be bothered in whitelisting sites in the browser.
Back to the point , legitimately HTML 4.01 was the latest version of HTML itself , not HTML5.
I use XHTML 1.1 on my personal website because I want it to work on literally any web browser , even the corporate ones , without issues.
I just can't do that with HTML5 , because as mentioned before, it only gets fully implemented in Chrome.
EDIT : Apparently not even Chrome even can implement fully its own thing , lol[3]
The web as we know it may be just dead , or who knows?
[1]:
[1.5]:
https://gt.kalli.st/novaburst/luakit-misc
[2]:
[3]:
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/images/html5test_scores.png
Why the Web Sucks (You Just Don't Know It)
HTML5 (and only 5) considered harmful
