The web is merely another type of medium, just like television, newspapers or radio, for transmitting information. The HTML language was designed to be an efficient way of achieving this transfer of data, and was designed to be evolve as new media formats were created, whilst remaining predictable to use.
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HTML does not prescribe what people should put on their Web pages, and it evolves as an open standard to cope with their desires and demands for new facilities. Nobody plays God on the Web. |
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| -- Naughton (1999, 271) | ||