- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:14:45 +0300
- To: Patrick H.Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Apr 29, 2007, at 22:26, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> HTML has a remarkable large author base that extends beyond markup >> purists. > > But does HTML5 have that base? Again, my previous point...the large > author base can stick with HTML4.01. HTML5 does not have that base yet, but to be successful a new version of a given technology (in general) has to plug into and leverage the network (in the network effect sense) grown around the old version. That is, HTML5 should be defined in a way that allows the HTML 4.01 author base easily become the HTML5 author base. Personally, I think it would be a serious design flaw is HTML5 couldn't satisfy the authoring use cases of authors who use HTML 4.01 today. What would be the point of knowingly designing a new version of HTML for non- adoption by the existing author base? This is like technology strategy 101. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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