- 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. :-)
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