[Gllug] Tim Berners-Lee webcast - anyone got it working on Linux?

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:13:56PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:07, Richard Jones wrote:
> > It would be somewhat ironic if Linux users were excluded from this
> > event ...
> 
> It would?  Why's that?

Because of all the things TBL has said on the subject of interoperability.
Here are a few:

  "It is required that HTML be a common language between all
  platforms. This implies no device-specific markup, or anything which
  requires control over fonts or colors, for example. This is in keeping
  with the SGML ideal."

  "The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone
  regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

  "Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They
  don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

And my favorite one:

  "Anyone who slaps a 'This page is best viewed with browser X' label on
  a web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the
  web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on
  another computer, another word processor, or another network."

Rich.

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