• From: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@g...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:53:34 +0100

That was some time ago. Will switching the world back to HTML5
work any better? :-)
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Stephen D Green



On 8 April 2011 12:47, Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am reading about the history of HTML5. This blog from Tim Berners-Lee seems to be quite important:
>
> http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166
>
> Here's something he states in that blog:
>
>    Some things are clearer with hindsight of several years.
>    It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally. The attempt
>    to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around
>    attribute values and slashes in empty tags and namespaces
>    all at once didn't work.
>
> /Roger
>
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• References:
  • [October, 2006] Tim Berners-Lee: the attempt to get the world toswitch to XML ... didn't work
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>