A Long Digression into How Standards Are Made
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A Long Digression into How Standards Are Made
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Re: A Long Digression into How Standards Are Made
#2I believe this was last updated in 2011.
Re: A Long Digression into How Standards Are Made
#3I believe this was last updated in 2011.
Indeed, the book itself is not going to be a current source on web APIs. However, the section about the history of the element is still interesting.
As the tweet which was shared here today mentions, it's now the 30th anniversary of this announcement by Andreessen, but I thought the content here had more depth than the previously-shared tweet, as a meditation on the formation of standards in the wild west web. I specifically liked this assertion by the author (after visiting all the proposed alternatives):
> But none of this answers the original question: why do we have an element? Why not an element? Or an element? Why not a hyperlink with an include attribute, or some combination of rel values? Why an element? Quite simply, because Marc Andreessen shipped one, and shipping code wins