- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:54:38 +0200
- To: Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
- Cc: David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org> wrote: > Last time browser vendors applied this kind of reasoning we got > <blink> elements, table layouts, and tag soup. > I guess history is meant to repeat itself. I'm not sure how that follows. <blink> was an easter egg that got out of hand. Table layouts were done because CSS sucked for non-trivial layout. And tag soup existed because the people in charge of defining HTML parsing at the time deferred to SGML for that, a system so complex that there has never really been a complete implementation. All of these have meanwhile been largely addressed. Not having tracked how URLs are actually used and implemented has certainly lead to "URL soup". That's what I've been working on addressing for a while now. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
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