- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:31:51 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Marco Neumann <marco.neumann@gmail.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Marco Neumann wrote: > > This 1 Introduction / 1.1 Background paragraph is wrong, misleading and > still hasn't been changed > > "HTML was primarily designed as a language for semantically describing > scientific documents, ..." > > Please change as requested ASAP into: > > HTML was primarily designed for basic hypertext, ... 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. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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