- From: Marco Neumann <marco.neumann@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:14:57 -0400
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
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, ... I don't quite understand why this hasn't been done yet. -Marco On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Charles McCathieNevile<chaals@opera.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 09 May 2008 08:39:42 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > >> 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? > > This is hardly what I would call scientific documents. We don't need > engineers in Opera to decide which rooms are available for a meeting, or who > is paid by a given client. > > Not that this is terribly important in the real world, but I would prefer > that assertions in the spec about history are at least in line with the > historical record. (I am not sure what purpose this one actually serves, > either, so it could just be removed IMHO). > > cheers > > Chaals > > -- > Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group > je parle franįais -- hablo espaņol -- jeg lærer norsk > http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.com > >
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