- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:02:08 -0500
- To: connolly@w3.org
- Cc: megazone@livingston.com, abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl, www-html@w3.org
From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@w3.org> | | In message <199605291415.JAA20687@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>, Scott E. Preece | writes: | > | >Well, how could there be anything that takes advantage of DIV when DIV | >is not yet standardized? | | This is the attitude that has kept stylesheets (and PNG and ...) | in the closet for years. --- The word "standardization" was ill chosen. I meant "when the feature is not yet implemented broadly enough that authors would have a reason to use it". The phrase "de facto standard" does not verb attractively. --- | Seems to me that a whole lot of stuff took advantage of HTML 2.0 long | before RFC1866 was published. | | For the nth time: | 1. proposal | 2. implementation experience | 3. standardization --- This was, actually, exactly my point. Content won't appear until implementations support it and we won't know the right implementation to standardize until we have content to validate its use. [Actually, I'm not completely happy with that "proposal" step - things have to be pretty mature before there's anybody to propose to.] I strongly support experimentation and standardization of proven practice. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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