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Summary: Someone at the W3C had enough of a pulse to wrest back the reigns from the Ted Nelsons that had spent a decade leading it off into useless fantasies. Here (a couple months ago) one of the primary fucklers is smashing his toys and throwing a tantrum.

Microsoft's decision to not implement XHTML was absolutely the right one -- draconian error handling would have fucked the web. 'tag soup' is not particularly hard to parse in the first place.

Got some URLs for the "Ted Nelson" / "fucklers" thing? Curious about the politics here.

I think this harks back to the war between the philosophies of idealists and theoreticians versus engineers and pragmatists which seems to constantly recur in the technology sector and is probably best known as "Worse Is Better".

Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=692437

Please remove the sexist remark from the headline to be taken seriously.

You need to fine-tune your sexism detection algorithm. The word "slut", just like the word "bitch" and "asshole" and "cock", are used to insult someone regardless of their gender/sex.

Its usage here is very appropriate.

W3C, you ignorant slut