Blaming the browser was the god's honest truth until fairly recently. You might be surprised to hear that IE didn't officially die until 2022. Safari and Firefo

Blaming the browser was the god's honest truth until fairly recently. You might be surprised to hear that IE didn't officially die until 2022. Safari and Firefox are still about 15% of users on desktop, and the situation is even worse on mobile. It doesn't really matter if it parses correctly when the browser vendor has their own opinions about rendering and behavior. W3C specs aren't always airtight and I assume that malicious compliance is free leverage for everyone at the table that isn't Google. All that is going to mean the users and devs suffer a bit. Even the most diligent and talented of web devs must eventually take bites of this shit sandwich along with everyone else. A lot of the complaints in sibling threads are from people who just don't understand how bureaucratic the web is. Goes to show how quickly everything can snowball into politics. It's worth thinking about when you look at the rest of the world too.