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Summary: Someone at the W3C had enough of a pulse to wrest back the reigns from the Ted Nelsons that had spent a decade leading it off into useless fantasies. H
by blasdel 17y ago
Summary: Someone at the W3C had enough of a pulse to wrest back the reigns from the Ted Nelsons that had spent a decade leading it off into useless fantasies. Here (a couple months ago) one of the primary fucklers is smashing his toys and throwing a tantrum.
Microsoft's decision to not implement XHTML was absolutely the right one -- draconian error handling would have fucked the web. 'tag soup' is not particularly hard to parse in the first place.
- tptacek 17y agoGot some URLs for the "Ted Nelson" / "fucklers" thing? Curious about the politics here.
- halo 17y agoI think this harks back to the war between the philosophies of idealists and theoreticians versus engineers and pragmatists which seems to constantly recur in the technology sector and is probably best known as "Worse Is Better".