- From: Stephen Stewart <beowulf@carisenda.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:53:00 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 21 Jun 2007, at 16:57, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: > [...] >> * Authors of Web pages merely copy-and-paste the boilerplate text >> at the moment, so the shorter and simpler we make it the >> better; the more we make the boilerplate change from year to >> year the more difficulty authors will have adapting. > > As Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net> wrote elsewhere : > >> 1. poor authoring practices should NOT sway or inform our decisions > > I for one am not the least bit interested in helping to design > a markup language for those too lazy to think : authors who merely > "copy-and-paste the boilerplate text" should /not/ be the target > of our efforts; Maybe you're making a wider point which is lost to me (I use boilerplate and I'm too lazy to think about that) but how does shortening the doctype & making it simpler, or even getting rid of it and the <html> tags for that matter, make any difference to the quality of what we do here or what authors do with the final spec? -- Stephen Stewart
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