Re: My Friday-Before-Labor-Day Diatribe [Was: Frame document structure]
Paul Jones (paul@raygun.urbana.mcd.mot.com)
Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:37:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: paul@raygun.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Paul Jones)
Message-Id: <199608302137.QAA08284@raygun.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
Subject: Re: My Friday-Before-Labor-Day Diatribe [Was: Frame document structure]
To: abigail@uk.fnx.com (Abigail)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:37:50 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: www-html@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <32275713.41C67EA6@uk.fnx.com> from Abigail at "Aug 30, 96 10:03:15 pm"
Abigail wrote:
> David Perrell wrote:
>>
>> Murray Altheim wrote:
>> > with the structure of online knowledge and information. It's as if
>> our
>> > browsers and documents were busy getting breast implants and
>> liposuction,
>> > rather than concentrating on improving their content, personality,
>> utility,
>> > wisdom.
>>
[...].
>
>
> I wished the Web was being used to deliver information,
> but currently, there is more to find on Usenet and ftp
> sites than on HTML pages. I seldom `browse' the web
> anymore, and I've haven't written a piece of HTML in
> months. It just isn't making sense anymore.
>
>
> Abigail - quite disappointed about the web and html.
>
I completely sympathize with everyone dismayed by the direction HTML
has taken. We are dismayed but we should not be surprised. Just
remember to "follow the money". The whiz-bang stuff is going to
sell a lot more browsers than good information markup. Our
society regrettably emphasizes <FORM> over <CONTENT>.
This is just one effect of that.
PJ
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