• To: 'Tim Bray' <tbray@t...>
• Subject: RE: XHTML 2.0 and the death of XLink and XPointer?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:36:49 -0500
• Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>

If one takes the position that what is is and is not 
to be improved without grandfathering what is, there 
is no application and no room for improvement.
This tautologically defines a way away from innovation 
and that is becoming a habit at the W3C. 

Hardcoding HTML into a gencoding system got it out 
there fast, but the consequences for innovation were 
and will always be unpleasant.

Continuous grandfathering of old designs is a recipe for  
complexity.  The problem of the WWW is that the 
commercial practice of shelving a product past it's useful 
lifecycle has never been practiced.

len

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