without standards, interoperability between clients falls away. client maintenance to support all the "nonstandard" things creates friction in the development process. there are definitely at least a few highly recommended if not standardized NIPs that need to be adhered to. there's a reason the browser wars have started to end in browsers working together to standardize. 

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