- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 06:39:42 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Dan Connolly wrote:
>
> The draft says "HTML was primarily designed as a language for
> semantically describing scientific documents, ..."
>
> I'm pretty sure that's not true.
The original proposal:
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
...makes it pretty clear that the project was originally intended for CERN
to manage project documentation. For example, from the second
introductory section ("Losing Information at CERN"):
The sort of information we are discussing answers, for example,
questions like
* [...]
* Which laboratories are included in that project?
That it quickly grew from that humble beginning to a much more generic
system I have no doubt, but it doesn't seem inaccurate to say that the
original design was for semantically describing scientific documents.
The "semantically" part may be more debatable though. :-)
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