Re: simple HTML list considered harmful

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 14:13:24 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Tony Sanders writes:
> What we need to decide is whether we want HTML+ to be backwards compatible
> with HTML.   I see no compelling reason for this being the case.

I do.  It makes it easy to evolve the browsers over time rather than
try to do a complete implementation of HTML+ at one time (which, as
discussed at WWWWW, isn't likely in the near future).

Cheers,
Marc