- From: Dylan Northrup <northrup@chuma.cas.usf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 10:45:16 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Alessio Bragadini <abragad@di.unipi.it>
- Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Alessio Bragadini wrote: > > Dylan Northrup <northrup@chuma.cas.usf.edu>: > > > The Netscape extensions are not set in stone (they've only > > released a beta). They might change if there was a intelligent, > > reasonable suggestion for the change. I'm quite sure if the > > HTML3 group would make some decisions and submit a final draft > > the guys at netscape would be more than happy to look at it. > > I don't really think so since I've read the Marc Andreesen interview > in October issue of Wired: [Quote deleted] Available at the following URL (when Brian finally puts it up :-): http://www.wired.com/Etext/2.10/index.html > They wrote HTML extensions for the browser they want to sell as much > as possible. Because there was no other alternative. Give them a reasonable alternative, and I'm sure they'd at least consider adding in the markups. Given a choice of giving a customer what they want and waiting for a committee to decide on a final draft of something that hasn't been talked about seriously for months, I'd choose the former every time without thinking. > We (or, at least, I) want a documents describing language that can be > used as well on any browser on any OS on any architecture, helping > users to organize and find informations all the way down the Web. And > I'm pretty sure that's the thing that cares to the W3O, much more than > the 'I want a larger font here' issues. The problem being, that this is *not* what most of the people who actually use and peruse the web care about. They *do* care about the "larger font/centered text/etc." issues. The W3O needs to realise that and think about the big picture. If they don't, then 5-10 years from now they'll be a historical footnote in their ivory tower overlooking some long forgotten off-ramp of the Infobahn. ***************************************************************************** * Dylan Northrup <northrup@chuma.cas.usf.edu> * PGP and Geek Code available * *********************************************** via WWW and upon request * * Will code HTML for food * KIBO #7 * <http://www.cas.usf.edu/dylan.html> * ***************************************************************************** ----------------------- Random Babylon 5 Quote: ----------------------- "Well, after all, no one knows exactly what you look like. That makes some people nervous." 'Good.' -- Sinclair and Kosh, "Grail"
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