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No.

I worked on web apps in the early and mid 2000s. What we could do was defined by the capabilities of ie 5-6. Everything else, with it's whopping up to 10% market share, was irrelevant.

Plus, innovation on its own is worthless. If I can't use feature X in the browser that the vast majority of my customers use, it may as well not exist.

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