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> alert was never a W3C standard. It was a non-standard browser feature that happened to be widely implemented in the early days of the web. It was never part o
by Zababa 5y ago
> alert was never a W3C standard. It was a non-standard browser feature that happened to be widely implemented in the early days of the web. It was never part of any planned/agreed addition of well-thought-out features to the web.
That's the case for flatten too, it was just a widely used library, but the point is not to respect the standards but to not break the web.
- lucideer 5y ago> not break the web. Oh how times change. It's not so long since this infamous sentiment (as espoused by one much more infamous browser vendor) was widely seen as the regressive excuse it is. A technology that is not iterative is representative of a community that cannot learn.