On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Erik Ronstr�m wrote:

> One of my fears about abc is that is will go the same way as HTML.
<snip>
> The keywords are "backward compability". The browser developers don't
> need to follow any standard, and of course they don't: that would make
> 90% of all pages on the Net illegal. So they continue using their old,
> inconsistent ways of doing things. And since they work and the browsers
> allow it, people will continue using them when building homepages.

Totally off topic, but the problem with html is that one browser dominates
to the extend that nobody cares what the standard says, they just write
code for that browser.


> I think there is a large risk that abc develops in exactly this
> direction.

I fear it's too late already :-( I hope it's not, though. I'm not up to
date with the work on the standard, is there still a commission
working on what to include in the standard? I really think this work is
extremely important if abc is to have any future.

Regards
-- 
Atte

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