- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:19:29 -0400
- To: "Avoid@gmail" <avoid.spam.account@gmail.com>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
Avoid@gmail wrote: > During the last 8 years (probably more), we have seen the following loop: > > Start: > W3C: "The Web should be like this" > Vendors: "No" > Grandma and Grandpa: "Snif" > GO TO Start > No, that's not how it works, though it may look like that over a short enough time period. Consider the gradual replacement of tables and presentational markup by XHTML and CSS. In the long term, the right approach often does win. Other, ongoing examples: REST vs. WS-* HTTP authentication vs. cookies Atom vs. RSS The right approach does not always win overnight, but over time it does win. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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