- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 12:04:27 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 06:39 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Dan Connolly wrote:
> >
> > The draft says "HTML was primarily designed as a language for
> > semantically describing scientific documents, ..."
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that's not true.
>
> The original proposal:
>
> http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
>
> ...makes it pretty clear that the project was originally intended for CERN
> to manage project documentation. For example, from the second
> introductory section ("Losing Information at CERN"):
>
> The sort of information we are discussing answers, for example,
> questions like
> * [...]
> * Which laboratories are included in that project?
Hmm... "scientific documents" makes me think of
formally published LaTeX articles, not project
management stuff.
But I'll live.
> That it quickly grew from that humble beginning to a much more generic
> system I have no doubt, but it doesn't seem inaccurate to say that the
> original design was for semantically describing scientific documents.
>
> The "semantically" part may be more debatable though. :-)
>
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