Of standards, assholes, and evolution

There is quite a stink in the air about CSS (and the family of RDF markups, for that matter). For any given standard, there are those that are convinced that it will save the world, provide a baseline to enable collaboration, evolve into something useful, or just cause unnecessary angst.

It’s beginning to look like Gosling was right.

I posted this in May 2003 during week 1522.

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