Most of the web features beyond html 1.0 were 'proprietary' platform specific features developed internally at Netscape and rolled out with no consensus or stan

Most of the web features beyond html 1.0 were 'proprietary' platform specific features developed internally at Netscape and rolled out with no consensus or standardization. Brandon Eich though something was a cool idea so he shipped it, end of story. I wish Firefox and Safari would start solving problems again and let other vendors decide wether or not to adopt their solution or develop their own. As it stands, google's vision is that all webpages are multi-thousand line programs that require full asynchronous network and local storage access just to display a news article. Requiring js for simply getting the user agent string (and increasingly everything else) is how they keep one step ahead of efforts to stop fingerprinting tracking and targeting.