Karl makes me laugh
By glazou on Sunday 13 June 2004, 21:31 - General - Permalink
Yes, Karl makes me laugh... Excerpt from his blog, linking mine:
Pourquoi étendre une spécification HTML 4.01, qui a une sémantique mal définie, qui contient d'énormes ambiguités, qui se contradit de temps en temps, etc. Etendre HTML 4.01 sans le corriger, cela ne servirait à rien. La corriger est un travail énorme, et je ne suis pas certains que tout le monde en a conscience.
In substance, Karl says HTML 4 is a sub-optimal spec badly written that needs too much work to be extended. In other words, its success is a miracle and "HTML 4 delenda est". Well, I wish all bad specs of the world a success like HTML 4's 
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I'm afraid Karl is right. HTML4 is hard to extend and thats why we're still in HTML4's world :/
Success has nothing to do with quality... (think about IE)
people are saying it here.
Quality has nothing to do with success.
And look at the number of elements which are not used or missused at all. If you look carefully at that you can trimm the specification by "50%" I think. (TO VERIFY).