- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 04:23:45 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson On 09-05-26 00.19: > On Mon, 25 May 2009, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > >> Because, as I said, it is isn't useful to convince me about anything >> that you tell me that you have looked at it from scratch. The "from >> scratch" principle would in itself need to be defined, btw. >> > > We didn't start from scratch because of a design principle, we started > from scratch because we had no other practical choice. HTML4 is woefully > inadequate as a specification and it was simply easier to ignore it. > Except for the thing that "from scratch" is only a theory about your own work: It was easier to ignore it. So you had a choice. You did not have to ignore it. I agree with that. Now the HTML 5 work is part of the organisation that defined HTML 4, and which thus do not ignore it. Steven Pemberton: «HTML 4.01: The basis of all our work, a corrected version of HTML 4.» [1] [1] http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/ -- leif halvard silli
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