- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <clbullar@ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:51:00 -0500
- To: "'Ian B. Jacobs'" <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: "'www-tag@w3.org'" <www-tag@w3.org>
It is in the nature of the press to find a way to juice up the story. They can't help themselves since they transitioned from writing news copy to comedy and satire in the Nixon era. "It's all for the show, y'know." - Mick Jagger. As some here know, when you are a luminary, any interview is full of landmines. Audio is better than print but only slightly. Somewhere just above the foxhole and just below the radar is the ideal view of life for a simple man. len From: Ian B. Jacobs [mailto:ij@w3.org] On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 14:18, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Now we know. It's anything a URL references on the Internet. > > Quotes Ian Jacobs and references the work of the TAG. > > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/08/12/popsci.special.internet/index.html > > I guess we can close this list and just reference that URL now. :-) LOL I remember this interview! The question was "Do I have to type in "www." before example.com?" I tried to answer the question in a manner that would suggest that people should not rely on this error correction technique, and in fact, they should avoid typing (and even seeing) URIs where they can. This was captured as: "In an ideal world, URLs would neither be seen nor heard," says Ian Jacobs of the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is working on a Web that'd require no typing. I'll bet the Voice Browser folks are happy! _ Ian -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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