- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:35:37 +0200
- To: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Alan Gresley wrote: > Precisely. Oh come on, we're not on www-style to remake history but to work on technical matters related to CSS. The browser vendors made what was absolutely needed to make the Web a mass-media from a network reserved to scientists in labs. It's because browser vendors insisted (apart from the original Hotjava experience) on never refusing markup invalidity, moved so fast they did not have time to standardize, that the Web is the marvelous tool we know today. Not a perfect tool, but not one user out of ten thousands cares about the technical side of the Web. They just expect the Web to work, whatever the technical skill of the Web authors. And most Web authors - my dad is my best example at all times - are not experienced web designers. The end user does not care about it and even if my dad's page is technically ugly, the visitor will throw away the browser if he/she cannot visit my dad's page. Like it or not. Speaking of the Web as we know it, I think that fifteen years of doing the wrong thing (according to you) AND leading to a medium used on a daily basis by hundreds of millions of people and becoming mandatory for education, science, work, government and all areas of life just CANNOT be called a real failure. So much for the "wrong thing". You can be a perfectionnist and troll here forever, that will NOT change that fact. That said, can we please come back on Earth and could you please listen to the browser implementors when they say "no, that just cannot be like that" ? Thanks. </Daniel>
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