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The Document World: Come the Revolution (HTML)
- Human-authored
- Human text for humans to read
- Presentation-oriented
- Platform independent
- Vendor independent (more-or-less)
- Upgrade protected (more-or-less)
- Originally only pseudo-SGML, but grew up fast
And Now, The Bad News
- Sloppy HTML
- makes life tough for programs
- inconsistent interpretations
- tag abuse
- Tag-of-the-month club
- vendor N introduces <blink>; vendor M introduces <object>
- Demand for richer markup
- support richer styling, indexing, etc.
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