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		lmz on April 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Opera adds native support for blockchain domain na... Surely IE6 already had a "reasonable subset" and devs hated it for holding back progress...

fiddlerwoaroof on April 30, 2021 [–]

The main reason I disliked it was it wasn't standards compliant for the parts it did implement: you couldn't write code to-spec and expect it to work on both IE6 and Firefox, without testing each browser separately.

pjmlp on April 30, 2021 | [–]

Thankfully Google has fixed that problem, ChromeOS is now the stardard that drives the Web. /s

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