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The phrase "Don't break the web" is a bit newer, but it's basically the sentiment that lead to WHATWG forming 18 years ago, and one of the big defining goals of HTML5 was to set a foundation for expanding the web platform in a backwards-compatible way. HTML5 has been out for about as long as the invention of the web to HTML5.



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