Note by @fastfinge

@cavyherd @jdp23 @jeridansky I hope you’re right. But the insentives online are far more perverse than in any other endeavour. Advertising incentivizes obfuscation to prevent ad blockers. Vendor lock in incentivizes closed standards. I’m even starting to see creators pull back from microformats and intentionally violate standards to make things harder for AI, without caring about the accessibility side effects. Nowhere else in the entire field of human accomplishment have things been so perfectly aligned against useful standardization. The standards that do exist are used as a tool to lock small players out, more than anything. For example Microsoft’s xml office format, and the w3c embrace of drm. Not to mention that the standard has become so complex that writing a new browser isn’t realistic anymore, unless your Google, Apple, or Microsoft. Even Mozilla gave up and are still using what is effectively the Netscape browser engine. Yes, I’m aware of ladybird and servo. I’d say wake me up when they’re accessible and a viable browser replacement, but I expect to be long dead by then.