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. -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.ascReceived on Tuesday, 9 June 2009 20:46:23 UTC
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