[fortnum]

The title is clickbait. If anyone forced here anything, then it was not IE but - once again - webmasters who don't deserve that "title" ;)

[drdaeman]

"Webmasters" were told to use XHTML and they massively cried how that they just can't write correct code so they absolutely need sloppy parsers that would analyze the mess of unclosed tags and weirdly placed elements and try to understand the intent.

And the industry gave up. This is essentially the same story.