If I'm not mistaken the HTML standard improves and updates at a pace that could charitably be called "glacial". And when it does, it rarely seems to be in the d

If I'm not mistaken the HTML standard improves and updates at a pace that could charitably be called "glacial". And when it does, it rarely seems to be in the direction anybody wants -- for example, web designers have been crying for something near a decade would that force adopters of the standard to follow common sense layout guidelines, that way their work doesn't break in different browsers for different incompatible reasons. Everybody thought CSS would be it, but I've rarely seen a CSS heavy design that didn't rely on a bunch of hacks to deliver the desired layout or formatting. But it was critically important that a "footer" tag was recently included in the spec.