- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:29:17 -0500
- To: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- CC: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Dave J Woolley wrote: > > > A question for the historians: what was HTML's intent? > > > [DJW:] Amongst other things, to be simple and not to be another > page description language (Postscript, PDF, etc.) > or word processing file format (MS Word, Word Perfect, > etc.). > [...] > Unfortunately, I don't have the HTML 1 spec in the > office for the exact words. Sure you do; you found it: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html > (One interesting quote from Dave Raggett in 1992 > > <http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/HTMLConst > raints.html> is > It is required that HTML be a common language between all platforms. This > implies no device-specific markup, or anything which requires control over > fonts or colors, for example. This is in keeping with the SGML ideal.) TimBL wrote that, not DSR. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ pager (put return tel# in From or Subject field) mailto:connolly.pager@w3.org
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