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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:58:50 Ann Navarro wrote: > At 02:43 PM 8/29/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote: > > >(and I think that Tim's throw-away number was, if anything, a gross > >underestimate -- I cannot imagine even 1 in 1000 processes caring > >about the difference between transitional and strict) > > <snip> > > >You and I, Paul have seen too many worthy specs fail completely > >because of superfluous complexity -- HyTime, Topic Maps, and DSSSL > >(and Architectural Forms) spring immediately to mind, but they hardly > >stand alone. Most specs fail anyway, complex or not (XML's success is > >the exception rather than the rule), but it would be nice to give > >XHTML at least a fighting chance. > > David, > > Did HTML 4.0 -- with it's three versions, fail from overcomplexity? Definitely. Or, which HTML 4.0-conforming browsers did you have in mind? Certainly HTML has succeeded, but HTML 4.0 just isn't a reality on the Web yet. I don't consider that successful. -- Braden N. McDaniel braden@e... <URI:http://www.endoframe.com> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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