BERNERS-LEE "STAGGERED"

BERNERS-LEE "STAGGERED" BY WHAT PEOPLE PUT UP WITH ON WEB
World Wide Web developer Tim Berners-Lee never intended for ordinary folk to have to learn "http://" addresses and HTML formatting: "The original ideal was that anybody would very easily be able to write documents that could be connected through hypertext links. What has surprised me is the way people have been prepared to put up with manually encoding text. HTML was never supposed to be something that you would see -- it was intended to be something produced by an editor program.	An analogy is with word processors. Computer users don't have to write in all kinds of codes to format their document with fonts, margins and so on. So it staggers me that people have actually put up with having to write HTML by hand. Similarly, I had not expected people to have to work out the hypertext links by looking up and typing in those long, complex codes for addressing. URL syntax was never intended for human consumption. It was intended for a machine." -- Technology Review Jul 96 p32

BERNERS-LEE "STAGGERED" BY WHAT PEOPLE PUT UP WITH ON WEB

World Wide Web developer Tim Berners-Lee never intended for ordinary folk to have to learn "http://" addresses and HTML formatting: "The original ideal was that anybody would very easily be able to write documents that could be connected through hypertext links. What has surprised me is the way people have been prepared to put up with manually encoding text. HTML was never supposed to be something that you would see -- it was intended to be something produced by an editor program.

An analogy is with word processors. Computer users don't have to write in all kinds of codes to format their document with fonts, margins and so on. So it staggers me that people have actually put up with having to write HTML by hand. Similarly, I had not expected people to have to work out the hypertext links by looking up and typing in those long, complex codes for addressing. URL syntax was never intended for human consumption. It was intended for a machine."

-- Technology Review Jul 96 p32