- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:10:51 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Oh, well, sure. Web browsers now are basically application platforms, like Which is totally at variance with the design principles that produced HTML in the first place. I think we are well into the stage of standardisation, where a new protocol is due for invention that meets the original design objectives - communication of information in a way that anyone could author on any device using simple software. So few people now understand the philosophy behind HTML that they won't realise they are re-inventing it if they create such a new protocol. (This seems to me to be part of the lifecycle of all computer languages standards - start elegant and focused, hit the popular imagination, become the must implement language for compiler, etc., vendors, get standardised, bloat, become indistinguishable in capability and complexity from any of the other general purpose languages, that pre-dated it.)
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