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 Arjun Ray writes: > The real question is why Mozilla, for example, continues to support > Tag Soup. The answer to that is the key to the gestalt of the web. > IMHO. Well then, I guess we've hit it. You insist that the Web needs a total cleanup, perhaps a rebirth, before it's worthy of further consideration. Mozilla does put a lot of work into mapping ill-considered HTML into clean XML structures, sure, and it supports the CSS and Javascript on which you pour contempt, but I'm not entirely sure why you expect Web developers to drop everything and rush to the SGML model. (I'm not entirely sure why you find describing margins in CSS as something opposed to your "visions", either.) I've already suggested that the belief in reinvention that accompanied the early XML work led to a lot of conflict and not much success along the initial "SGML for the Web" dreams, so I guess maybe it's just a hopeless culture clash. Coming from the other side, I've always felt the Web had as much to teach the SGML folks as the other way around. That notion seems to have gone over badly since the response to my very first post here[1], however. I suspect we'd agree, however, that the synthesis at the W3C is rarely what I'd like. [1] - http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/199710/msg00129.html ------------- Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA http://simonstl.com may be my URI http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether 
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