This is a sane argument. I have no objection to it. Both things are true, in a sense. It really depends on how you view the browser, IE should browsers be more

This is a sane argument. I have no objection to it. Both things are true, in a sense. It really depends on how you view the browser, IE should browsers be more adaptive to certain paradigms or should it set a reasonable paradigm and enforce it? I don’t know that there is a 100% right answer in this case, though they have moved to create better hooks for some forms of isolation (e.g. layers, scoping) but they fundamentally haven’t walked away from the cascade aspect. It’s converging the two paradigms, for sure, but as I said, I don’t think either is wholly incorrect or correct. Now if you wanted my opinion on the whole thing, I think the cascade is a fundamental element to be leveraged not avoided, but that’s me.