an interview with dan conolly over html, <xml>, http-ng and life at w3g.

things that didn't work out historically: browsers that enable you to edit did not make it in the marketplace. He didn't intend the Web to be static pages. It was never intended that people would write HTML by hand. No one thought people would be doing View Source--well, maybe one time out of a million.

on standards We think one of the principles of good standards work is to let lots of people do things lots of different ways, figure out which things succeed, and then bless them.

distributed software development The return on investment when you're trying to keep your technology secret is going down all the time; you have to be more and more novel for it to be cost-effective.