@samir@mastodon.functional.computer google also broke the web and essentially took over the w3c starting 2008 when they introduced V8.

and techies? well, they love new shit, and if your browser doesn’t support that, too bad. web standards then were still built with ubiquity in mind. no matter how old and/or limited your device was—websites could be built to gracefully downgrade and present something usable on it. now, google wants a feature the competition doesn’t have, and they get it, because google essentially runs the w3c.

those heavy javascript frameworks seemingly everyone has come to rely on don’t even try to support anything else. that whole idea of an accessible web gradually disappeared as chrome’s market share grew.