Re:Comments: HTML3 at www.hpl.hp.co.uk

Keith M. Corbett (kmc@specialform.com)
Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:35:24 -0400

At 06:05 PM 3/9/95 EST, Dan Connolly wrote:

>But we don't have it to do all over again. HTML has a lot of momentum.

..and a lot of inertia, in the sense of "resistance to motion or change".

We already have better markup languages designed for more specific purposes.

Fortunately the next wave is on the way: browsers with full SGML capabilities.

Let's keep this in mind when we evaluate proposals to change HTML.

-kmc