21 messages in org.w3.www-htmlPropose of standards
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Larry MasinterSep 23, 1999 12:15 pm 
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Walter Ian KayeSep 24, 1999 10:39 am 
Arjun RaySep 27, 1999 6:31 pm 
Harald Tveit AlvestrandSep 28, 1999 10:51 am 
Arjun RaySep 28, 1999 5:01 pm 
Harald Tveit AlvestrandSep 30, 1999 11:41 am 
Arjun RaySep 30, 1999 11:55 pm 
Larry MasinterOct 4, 1999 1:06 pm 
Arjun RayOct 4, 1999 9:56 pm 
Larry MasinterOct 5, 1999 6:55 am 
Arjun RayOct 6, 1999 12:04 am 
Arjun RayOct 6, 1999 3:29 am 
Rick JelliffeOct 6, 1999 6:37 am 
Arjun RayOct 6, 1999 6:39 am 
Russell Steven Shawn O'ConnorOct 6, 1999 6:42 am 
Arjun RayOct 6, 1999 10:17 am 
Arjun RayOct 7, 1999 10:00 pm 
Larry MasinterOct 8, 1999 2:55 am 
Jukk...@hut.fiOct 8, 1999 3:27 am 
Arjun RayOct 8, 1999 3:49 pm 
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Subject:Propose of standardsActions...
From:Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor (roco@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca)
Date:Oct 6, 1999 6:42:45 am
List:org.w3.www-html

Is the purpose of standards to compromise on the current crap and make it interoperatable. Or is the purpose of standards to create new crap such that if everyone used it, everyone would be even better off?

In particular, what is the purpose of the HTML standard?

-- Russell O'Connor roco@uwaterloo.ca <http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/> ``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message'' -- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''