Quotes About HTML

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the worldwide web, on writing HTML:

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me — that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

Stan Brown, giving Flavell’s Law its name:

I think it’s called “Flavell’s Law” — or at least it could be:

A page that purports to teach others to use HTML, or to be a reference, will itself fail validation.

David Dorward, on the subject of nested tables:

  • Are you trying to use tables for layout?
    • Yes -> http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts
    • No -> Sure?
      • No -> http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts
      • Yes -> Really? You are only using them to asociated rows and cols of data?
        • No -> http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Tableless_layouts
        • Yes -> Give us a URL. Data that is so complex that it makes sense to nest tables is really rare. This is something special.
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