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coldtea on Aug 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Languages Which Almost Became CSS

>Goes to show how much irrationality there is in the evolvement of web standards.

Well, for one E4X was never adopted by other browsers that mattered, only Mozilla.

Second, it's main use was for working with XML, which the web is glad we got rid of.

type0 on Aug 4, 2017 | [–]

Oh, XML will soon be only remembered as that thing which used to stand for X in AJAX.

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