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2005-11-02-WEB

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Adam Bosworth: Learning from THE WEB.

The UPPER-CASE WEB.

"[D]on’t require shared secrets, let alone shared code, to make things work. [...] HTTP and HTML are shared secrets between the browser and the server, so perhaps the rule should be to have incredibly few of them and make them incredibly simple, flexible, forgiving, and generic."

"Interestingly, standards bodies tend to keep working on standards long after they should have been frozen."