That was the target, yes. NeWS was too big and too slow, but what we ended up with instead is ten times slower, a hundred times larger, and a thousand times ugl

That was the target, yes. NeWS was too big and too slow, but what we ended up with instead is ten times slower, a hundred times larger, and a thousand times uglier. The promise of the world wide web of target-independent structural markup turned out to have its fingers crossed.