[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Deja vu?
I stumbled upon this last night ... written in 1997, looking back at the early history of HTML: http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.wired.com/ news/topstories/0%2C1287%2C3454%2C00.html "HTML continued to grow, with new, powerful, and exciting tags. We got <background>, <frame>, <font>, and of course, <blink>. Microsoft jumped into the game, and <marquee>, <iframe>, and <bgsound> started competing for room in the spec. And all this time, the W3C furiously debated something called HTML3, a sprawling document outlining all sorts of neat new features that nobody supported (remember <banner> and <fig>?). It was now 1995, and things were an absolute mess. Something needed to give. ... The HTML arm of the W3C changed course and started collecting and recording current practice in shipping browsers, rather than designing a future, unattainable version of the language. HTML3 was dropped entirely, and work began on HTML3.2, which, ironically, was far less technologically advanced than its predecessor. But, more importantly, it was realistic in its goal to give content providers and browser developers a common, if dated, reference from which to work." ["Feel like I've been here before" http://www.4waysite.com/songbooks/chords/DC/dejavu.htm]
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