- From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 96 15:52:00 PDT
- To: www-html <www-html@www10.w3.org>
MegaZone writes in <199605101016.DAA04606@server.livingston.com>: [...] >Because the instant you put it in the standard DTD you have de facto put >it in concrete. If it later turns out during development that the >documented method is lame, you are stuck - you have to leave it in, at >least for a while, as a legacy implimentation. > >And that is pure evil. > ><MATH> is not dead - math is still gestating as is yet to be born. > ><FIG> was a miscarriage. Well said. Unfortunately, HTML 3.0 was just too large (IMHO) to be processed fast enough to become a standard. HTML 3.2 should go along much faster, esp. as the (apparent) plan is for it to be an informational RFC, not a standards-track RFC. We are getting there, people -- it is just taking awhile. ====================================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
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