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At 09:40 PM 7/25/2000 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: ><quoting Tim Bray> > >Anyhow, the notion that namespaces were foisted on a resisting populace > >by a small group of insiders is totally silly. There was tons of input and > >agonizing hand-wringing and meetings and emails and successive drafts etc > >etc ad nauseum. And in some parts of the spec, the community consensus was > >questionable. From my understanding, much of it was of such compromise that no one was happy with it by the time it hit the door. >I think you may be selectively forgetting the various battles over >namespaces in early '99 - my favorite example remaining (of course): >http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/xml-dev-Jan-1999/0311.html > >While that was a particularly heated post, there was a lot of heat even >before the namespaces spec was approved, and I don't think it's pushing too >hard to suggest that it might have been a good warning sign... Another might be a relatively recent gathering of markup architecture types, which had just finished enjoying a comedic performance by one member of the group. An anonymous individual said "Well, Nikolai, I'd sure like to see you top that one some day!" To which our friend responded, "Oh, I can do that..." <good 5 second pause here> .... "Namespaces". Brought down the house. Ann --- Just Released! - HTML BY Example Now shipping - Mastering XML Also in print: Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Founder, WebGeek, Inc. http://www.webgeek.com Chief Operating Officer, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org
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