"create a drastically simpler set of web standards, so that making web browsers would become much simpler" That was the goal of web standards with xhtml cira 2

"create a drastically simpler set of web standards, so that making web browsers would become much simpler" That was the goal of web standards with xhtml cira 2000-2008. It ended up having the opposite effect of being "relatively fast moving" and really slowed development down. At some point they realized that figuring out balancing tags wasn't really all that hard for browsers to implement. For old styling mechanisms, browsers can just warn against using them.