That also assuming that the browser war never happened. The web is (was?) essentially a libertarian wild dream of unregulated evolution for a long time. The q

That also assuming that the browser war never happened. The web is (was?) essentially a libertarian wild dream of unregulated evolution for a long time. The question is not if we took a suboptimal path in this evolution, but if there was a better way to define the process. This is not to argue anything, if the web had started with XHTML maybe it would be better or maybe it would be worse.