- From: David Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:14:24 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 9:51 PM -0800 3/29/97, Jon Bosak wrote: > >Here's the problem. Most users who have expressed an opinion (this >includes myself) want public identifiers. But most implementors who >have expressed an opinion won't have anything to do with them until a >behavior is specified. Given this division, I vote with the >implementors, because an imperfect system that's implemented always >beats a perfect system that isn't. But this is a case where the implementors are insisting on offering an _unneeded_ solution (we have SYSTEM available to supplement PUBLIC when and as needed), that is not especially _wanted_. Now that seems counterproductive to me. It's the well known case of software people telling the users that they're wrong about their needs. A well-implemented system that doesn't do what you want is not so useful. Neither is not having a system at all, because someone doesn't have the same definition of "work" as you do. I'll be posting a more coherent, integrated statement in a bit, but thisd just made me jump. I've been on both sides of that, but in this case, the implementors are just wrong. I can't avoid being that blunt, I'm afraid. --- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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