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No... just no. If browsers are relaxed now, then they are forced to provide backwards-compatibility for all the sites that then rely on those relaxed standards. Why do you think Internet Explorer is a complete mess and have dug themselves into a whole of having to ship half a dozen "compatibility modes" with every new version of their browser? Because they didn't stick to standards.



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