- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 21:33:31 +0200
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
> As much as I'd love to subscribe to this philosophy, David, I > think the problem is that the folks who make web pages (to make > a gross generalization) don't read the HTML spec except as a > last resort. They type into Notepad (or similar text editor). > The browser is their error-checker. No, they don't type into Notepad... They use FrontPage or Nvu. And to be honest, this is not the problem here. A spec cannot target two audiences that are so different, implementors and users (here, users are document authors). And to be honest too, a spec _should not_ target users. Tutorials and books are here to educate users. IMHO, this is not _at all_ our mission to build a tutorial, some people do that much better than we do. The best we can do is a good spec so tutorial authors don't make enormous mistakes... (did you hear me say they often do enormous mistakes ?-) </Daniel>
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