From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w3 and css Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:08:34 +0100 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298148830 31859 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 20:53:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:53:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 21:53:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqtoF-0004BX-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:53:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pqtbh-00078a-Fv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:40:45 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed3.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: euler.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1298146114 30715 129.241.15.89 (19 Feb 2011 20:08:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:08:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hbGm8VsjbZDUyigNGTFFE3hG9jI= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185072 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79232 Archived-At: [William F Hammond ] >> 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 - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell