{"id":80,"date":"2006-01-03T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T14:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-05-28T18:08:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T23:08:48","slug":"teds-wrong-dions-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2006\/01\/03\/teds-wrong-dions-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted&#8217;s Wrong, Dion&#8217;s Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tedneward.com\/2005\/11\/08\/HTML+Is+Not+Statically+Typed+But+So+What.aspx\">Ted<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re technically right that HTML is not part of the Web architecture; but you&#8217;re living in dreamland if you think the Web could have succeeded with PDF, Flash, Word, or any of hundreds of other possible stricter formats. <\/p>\n<p>The Web&#8217;s success depended critically on the looseness (I hesitate to call a non-programming language weakly typed) of HTML. People could open it, edit it, make mistakes, and still get good results.  Plus they didn&#8217;t need any fancy payware tools to make things work. Plain text was good enough. A stricter format would not have brought the Web where it is today. <\/p>\n<p>P.S. Your spam prevention code locks out blind users, much as PDF, Flash, and so forth are much less accessible to the visually impaired than plain vanilla HTML.<\/p>\n<p>P.P.S. Your comment system is locking me out too, for no obvious reason so I&#8217;ll post this response on my own blog instead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted, You&#8217;re technically right that HTML is not part of the Web architecture; but you&#8217;re living in dreamland if you think the Web could have succeeded with PDF, Flash, Word, or any of hundreds of other possible stricter formats. The Web&#8217;s success depended critically on the looseness (I hesitate to call a non-programming language weakly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}