Doesn't that largely defeat the purpose of this intermediate
standardization effort, if you ignore key Mosaic features like inline
images and interactive forms? The outstanding success of Mosaic has
given us a wonderful and rare opportunity to standardize on its
advances, before any major splintering takes place. Why does
everyone here seem determined to squander that opportunity?
> When I began looking at HTML and WWW, it was difficult to
> tell exactly what HTML was, so I tried to develop a
> specification. That spec apparently hasn't solved much
> :-{ It failed to address a number of features essential to
> the successful deployment of HTML.
What's different this time? The current mainstream success of the
Web has a lot to do with Mosaic's graphical and interactive features.
What these features need most right now is some kind of base-level
standard so that they can be used reliably.
I guess Marc is more of a heretic than I realized.
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Paul Burchard <burchard@geom.umn.edu>
``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...''
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