Words for The Mozilla Community
Written by admin on May 5, 2009
Markup is What People Do
The suite of HTML standards developed by the W3C are well established, and are today in real danger of full support by implementations that are of practical use. Against the sense of nearing completeness is a general restlessness, particularly evident amongst key specialists, about the apparently unsatisfactory way in which these carefully crafted markup standards and their matching software is being hamfistedly used by various user groups. In this essay I argue that attempts to mandate any kind of standards compliance across the built Web is useful only in special cases. There are other, overriding concerns.
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