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HTML was/is kudzu. len Quoting "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>: > On 4/8/11 7:47 AM, Costello, Roger L. 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. > > Yeah, it didn't. I don't think TimBL ever really "got" XML, though, > and it's more than a little amusing to hear him of all people > complain that namespaces were a problem for adoption. > > (The HTML5 chairs just agreed to let namespace prefixes survive into > HTML5: > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0689.html> > It's notable from an XML perspective that it was an issue.) > > I frequently wish that XML had been standardized some place other > than the W3C, which promptly polluted it with weirdly broken if you > looked closely URI-based notions from the (useful but different) RDF > work its upper folks really cared about. > > I understand quite well, though, that it seemed like the best option > at the time. > > -- > Simon St.Laurent > http://simonstl.com/ > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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