Oct 27, 2006 5:17 PM

Tim Berners-Lee: We Need a New HTML Working Group

One of the web’s big thinkers posted a missive on his blog today about the failures of trying to force the de facto language of the web to evolve too quickly. Tim Berners-Lee, the director of the W3C, has proposed the formation of a new HTML working group to oversee small, incremental changes to the […]

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