- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:51:12 -0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
> From: Jan Roland Eriksson [SMTP:jrexon@newsguy.com] > > > Something that fits straight into the "context" of the data stream being > parsed. (could be the counterpart of SSI, on the client side, if you > like :) Now we only need clients to support that old idea... > > [DJW:] What you are seeing here seems to be a standard fate of computing standards. Someone devises a new language that is lean and mean and targeted at a specific purpose. In this case entities were removed from HTML to allow simple browsers to be written, and things like colours, from contemporary desk top publishing, were excluded for simplicity and universality. However, with time, everyone adds back the features to produce a "one language fits all" type solution, but in doing so are often unaware of that they are adding things back that were deliberately removed, so add them back in an incompatible way. In this case it is also viewed as layering rot process, in that HTML is layered on SGML, but people are unaware of this, so risk ending up re-inventing SGML. I don't think it will be long before XML ends up more complex than SGML, even thought it was supposed to be a cut back version! -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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