Isn't that the point though? This is part of the standard, and was being used by developers. Not many developers, but then I'm pretty sure that there are parts

Isn't that the point though? This is part of the standard, and was being used by developers. Not many developers, but then I'm pretty sure that there are parts of lots of standards that are barely used - doesn't mean we just go around taking them out because we feel like it. The best part of Firefox/Netscape/Chrome/Safari/Opera eating IE's lunch was that they all converged (roughly) on standards compliance, so we didn't have to have "Built for IE 6.0" stickers all over everything. Chrome ditching parts of the standard just because they don't like it is the fast track back to there.