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JoshTriplett • yesterday at 9:44 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

With the benefit of hindsight, if the web had been that way from the beginning, I think we would have been better off. The moment you tested your content in any browser, you'd immediately see if it was broken.

But it wasn't something that could get introduced later, after all the broken content that already existed.


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ktpsns • yesterday at 10:02 PM

With all respect - the opposite is true. The web succeeded because HTML and HTTP are easy standards easily writable by humans with text editors. HTML was writable by non-programmers.

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Conan_Kudo • yesterday at 10:00 PM

Yeah, I think SGML HTML as the first pass was a mistake. All my early websites were XHTML until people called them "bad"...