Re: [xml-dev] markup humility

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Re: [xml-dev] markup humility
On 18/02/2022 00:17, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
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> For a new technology to be adopted, it has to have a "value
> proposition" -
> * you can do things you couldn't do before;
> * you can do things you could already do, but faster...
> * or more cheaply
> * or more reliably, more easily

It also needs not to stop doing things that will break large amounts of
existing applications without providing an acceptable way of upgrading.
As Simon I think implied, the pursuit of novelty-hunting under the guise
of improvements is not a suitable path.

Peter