- From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 03:46:29 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
- cc: www-html@w3.org
murray@muzmo.com (Murray Maloney) wrote:
>At 05:26 PM 5/5/2007 +0100, Philip & Le Khanh wrote:
>>Forgive my na\"\i vety, but which authority are you citing when
>>you make this statement ?
>
>The authority of someone with 30+ years as a technical writer,
>20+ years in SGML, HTML, XML and so on, and an original member
>of the earliest HTML Working Groups.
Ah, good old argumentum ad verecundiam. Somehow I suspect this
was not the meaning of the word “authority” Philip intended
in his query. Although, with that weight of expertise I can
understand how you might get them confused.
--
“It's not the mere technical details of inserting the live
round into the
chamber, pointing the weapon at one's foot, and pulling the
trigger, but
rather, it's about the advisability of doing that in the first place.”
-- Alan J. Flavell
on ciwah
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