Re: What makes a failure? (@summary, et al)

David, by the measure you define in your first sentence, HTML
qualifies well -- 

David Singer writes:
 > My guess is that we would say that something has *failed* when its 
 > use on the web has become hopelessly polluted with incorrect usage, 
 > such that those needing what it's intended for no longer look there 
 > for their answer.  I think that was the situation described for 
 > longdesc.
 > 
 > so, abuse is widespread and swamps usage -> failure.  we cannot soon 
 > recover.  think again.
 > 
 > Something that is neither used nor misused is neither a success or 
 > failure, in my opinion.
 > 
 > neither abusage nor usage -> not succeeding.  think about why we're 
 > not getting traction.
 > 
 > plenty of usage and not too much abuse -> success!  go and celebrate! 
 > (sigh, doesn't seem to happen often in accessibility)
 > -- 
 > David Singer
 > Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.

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