Elliotte Rusty Harold: >> For a long time we not so deliberately did limit the Web >> to people who were comfortable hand editing tags. Then >> blogs came along, and changed all that. (Wikis too.) >> There's an order of magnitude more people publishing >> now than there used to be a few years ago, and blog >> usability is largely the reason. Optional angle bracket >> syntax is one reason for that, though there are others >> (automated site structures and content upload are >> probably more important)
I don't disagree with any of that. I'm just saying don't discount the value of a spec with simple enough to be hand editable. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/