- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:22:06 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 9/16/05, Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Orion Adrian > > > The fundamental problem as I see it is that HTML tries to generalize > > everything. Instead of talking about contacts, I'm talking about > > paragraphs. Instead of products, I'm talking about tables. > > Good luck in trying to come up with one single set of elements to mark > up ALL real world content. Or are we moving on to the idea of integrating > various namespaced languages/technologies into a document? We are talking about moving into integrating namespaced content into a single language. Again, why I rallied against namespaces as they're bad when you constantly have to switch between them. This lack of consistency is also why we've had such a hard time of making browsers anything more than viewers into an applications platform. As a culture we're still re-inventing the same thing over and over again, be it contacts, bookmarks, purchase orders, etc. with every application; all for lack of a dialogue. It's time to stop reinventing with each version and start standardizing so people don't have to. -- Orion Adrian
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