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In a short interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, touts the W3C's HTML 5 standard, which was finally published last week after eight years of work. Sir Berners-Lee sees HTML 5 as advancing the Web as the central platform for delivering Internet content and applications, to mobile devices as well as PC users.
Q. How do you use the Web? Are there any sites or services that you use regularly?
A. We do all our work at the W3C on the Web — everything. We have a mantra: If it's not on the Web, it doesn't exist. When discussing things in a meeting, everything we do, the minutes of the meetings, it's always on the Web.
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Berners-Lee on HTML 5: If It's Not on the Web, It Doesn't Exist
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday November 02 2014, @08:34AM
Also I guess what he does with his wife in the bedroom isn't on the web either. He surely wouldn't therefore conclude that it doesn't exist.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday November 02 2014, @12:13PM
He clearly hasn't considered the opposite point of view - does everythng that's on the web really need to exist? I occasionally do some quite obscure web searches, and the number of times I hit robo-generated link farms is scary. The SNR of the web is scarily low. In particular in the bang-per-byte. Do you remember the days when google squashed their home search page to be as small as possible (in source size), to keep their bandwidth down? Now they're shipping 16 kilobytes of javascript with every page load even to people like me who don't have JS enabled. I have written OSes that take up less than 16 kilobytes.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday November 02 2014, @06:34PM
He surely wouldn't therefore conclude that it doesn't exist.
Yes, but you should conclude that it doesn't!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 02 2014, @09:22PM
What does he do with his wife in the bedroom?