The problem with opposing improved technologies is, simply put, that JS/DOM/CSS/HTTP are broken crufty accidents of design, and enforcing compatibility with the

The problem with opposing improved technologies is, simply put, that JS/DOM/CSS/HTTP are broken crufty accidents of design, and enforcing compatibility with them forever is what has prevented the web from moving forward, has stifled innovation, and ultimately is why the web could lose the app war. Imagine if we'd used a priviledged market position to religiously defend against the introduction of everything that wasn't backwards compatible with gopher? That's what you're doing to our industry today, and in that, you're almost as bad for our industry as Microsoft was bad for the web in the 90s.