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Have you been following how HTML has evolved over the past 20 years? Your comment suggests not.

It’s not entirely a standards-driven process. It’s common for browser vendors to just build stuff. That’s been a mixed blessing but it has definitely been faster than some W3C consortium debating “ergonomics” for years.

Successful additions get backported into the spec, slowly.




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