On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 08:50 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> On 4/8/11 7:47 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
[...]
> 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,
A lot didn't. At no point did I ever expect XML to replace HTML, and
wen I joined W3C years later, I was surprised to see that management
seemed to view XML as basically a failed attempt to replace HTML.
For a while, NCSA Mosaic had a "Bad HTML" icon that lit up on errors; if
Netscape and IE had followed that lead maybe it might have made a
difference, but it's too late now.
Liam
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