- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:35:51 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
At 10:56 PM -0400 10/21/03, Dan Connolly wrote: >I don't think "HTML's must-ignore has been highly successful" is >self-evident; it has serious drawbacks. Yes, but it's still obviously successful. Just look at the number of deployed HTML pages and tools in the world. As much as I appreciate XML's draconian error handling, one must realize that the non-draconianess of HTML was a key feature in getting it widely adopted by non-programmers, something XML has failed to achieve. I doubt the Web could have achieved liftoff if it were weighed down with draconian error handling. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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