A Fool's Wisdom » Standards http://foolswisdom.com A fool and his blog are soon parted. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Built It or They Won’t Come http://foolswisdom.com/built-it-or-they-wont-come/ http://foolswisdom.com/built-it-or-they-wont-come/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:58:05 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/?p=2186 Continue reading →]]>

‘… Most of the successful versions of HTML have been “retro-specs,” catching up to the world while simultaneously trying to nudge it in the right direction. …

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That’s not to say that all shipping code wins; after all, … Code is necessary but not sufficient for success. …

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The ones that win are the ones that ship.’

Mark Pilgrim, “Why do we have an IMG element?“, Nov 2nd, 2009

The article includes fascinating excerpts from some of the leaders in this almost-17-year-old work in progress, HTML.

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