Yep I know the history, I was building sites at the time. And my own unfashionable take is that "pragmatic" HTML5 was a cop-out, it was still early days for the

Yep I know the history, I was building sites at the time. And my own unfashionable take is that "pragmatic" HTML5 was a cop-out, it was still early days for the web and XHTML would have been worth the initial breakages. Interesting rant about ActivityPub, you have my sympathy.