We can only blame one company here, Microsoft (their whole Embrace and Extend business plan) . If Microsoft had of conformed to standards in the beginning, we wouldn't be in this mess, Standards are there for a reason. Also @PB_z, who do you think this baggage is coming from, you guest it Microsoft (Microsoft being part of the W3C group). Their doing what they did to ODF and IPv6).
As for support for this new standard. IE 8, Firefox 3.1 (and any web browser that runs the Gecko Engine), Opera 11 and Saferi will have support.
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