The web is a wonderful thing, but I don't envy the lot of browser makers. Every once in a while whenever I have to replicate some portion of the whole HTTP/HTM

The web is a wonderful thing, but I don't envy the lot of browser makers. Every once in a while whenever I have to replicate some portion of the whole HTTP/HTML stack, like cookies or in this article content encoding detection, it becomes apparent what a disaster certain things on the web evolved into.