From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: w3 and css
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:08:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pcopqqnhjnh.fsf@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: i7fwrjykli.fsf@hilbert.math.albany.edu
[William F Hammond <hammond@mapson.albany.edu>]
>> the git repository and ran git log, which tells me the latest revision
>> to the code was in May 2008. This does not bode well.
>
> Just because the last revision was a while ago or even longer does not
> mean the project is dead. It may mean that the author sees no need to
> revise.
Absolutely. Which is why I said my conclusions were tentative. But I
also recall w3 being in an unusable condition last time I checked, which
admittedly was before the latest round of edits.
> For example, there's been no public update to my current project since
> the summer of 2007; the type of work going on does not quickly show up
> in code.
I believe the source code of TeX has been stable for much longer than
that. But it's much harder to make a stable web browser because it has
to track a moving target.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
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2011-02-19 10:27 ` w3 and css Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-02-19 11:24 ` Andrea Crotti
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2011-02-19 12:33 ` Tim X
2011-02-19 17:56 ` William F Hammond
2011-02-19 20:08 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2011-02-19 21:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-02-19 9:23 Andrea Crotti
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