Re: Design Principles

On Mon, 25 May 2009, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
> 
> Because, as I said, it is isn't useful to convince me about anything 
> that you tell me that you have looked at it from scratch. The "from 
> scratch" principle would in itself need to be defined, btw.

We didn't start from scratch because of a design principle, we started 
from scratch because we had no other practical choice. HTML4 is woefully 
inadequate as a specification and it was simply easier to ignore it.

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