- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 18:10:20 -0400
- To: www-html@www10.w3.org, rcolman@synsis.com
> Wow, are you guys out of touch with reality or what! > > In case you hadn't noticed, Netscape is running on almost 5 million desktops > with a 60% market share. [...]. Those who ignore dominant > market share in an increasingly commercial WWW are bound to be swept right off > the playing field. On ignoring dominant ``market share'': it's not clear that the term `market' applies to free software, but we should not have that argument here, nor argue the proportion of Netscape users who have paid. Just because 70% of all vehicles on the roads are cars, we don't need to mae bridges tall enough for those old-fashioned and definitely deprecated `truck' things. While we're about it, farmers don't really need tractors, they can use BMWs. Look at the savings! Look at the uniformity! Luckily, the HTML Working Group *does* care about the other 40%. They/we care about the 5-10% who can't easily read a regular screen, whether because blind or poor-sighted or temporarily unable to see, or whether they are in circumstances that preclude the use of a monitor. Braille HTML output is being done today. So is spoken word output. Also about people using text-only terminals. And about automated use of HTML, such as by robots. For all these reasons (and more), format-directed extensions to HTML, such as <BLINK>, <COLOUR>, <CENTRE>, <BOLD>, <FONT> and so forth, are considered less useful than content-directed extensions such as <CAPTION> or <DIV>. Lee -- Liam Quin, SoftQuad Inc +1 416 239 4801 lee@sq.com <URL:http://www.sq.com/> SoftQuad HoTMetaL/HTML Editor; SoftQuad Panorama/WWW SGML Viewer
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