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- gabriel_pc0
Absolutely not, the more viewpoints on this the better. I was pointing out how hypocritical it was of you to call people that support web standards nerds.
Your analogy about speaking vernacular is flawed because language doesn't have to be perfectly spoken to be understood. We humans have an amazing ability to guess and learn what people mean when they say something. Web browsers lack this ability.
A better analogy would be comparing Web standards to DVD format standards. Imagine how difficult it would be for someone to produce a DVD if there were no standards to follow. It wouldn't even be a DVD at that point, just a piece of plastic that contains some form of data.
A unified web standard is like world peace. It'll probably never be 100% supported, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try for it.
--official web standards nerd