Posted by Paul Wallich on 04/20/07 20:05

Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 20 Apr, 16:12, dpapathanasiou <denis.papathanas...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> But this problem was entirely preventable: if Netscape and early
>> versions of IE had rejected incorrectly-formatted html, both people
>> hacking raw markup and web authoring tools would have learned to
>> comply with the spec,
>
> We'd also still be using HTML 1.0, as the legacy problems would stifle
> any change to the standard.

Remember that originally no one was supposed to write HTML. It was
supposed to be produced automagically by design tools and transducers
operating on existing formatted documents.

You know, the same way that no one is supposed to write in assembler.

paul

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