From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 11:42:02 CST
I hesitate to question you, Addison Phillips, much less disagree with
you (because you generally speak sense), but the same kind of survey
measurements taken in the earliest years of Web activity would
probably yield closer to 100% ASCII, which would have been gravely
wrong and very misleading in real terms (that is, in terms of real
needs of real users), so it would be, IMHO, better to ignore such
statistics and always return, as a rule of thumb, to user needs (as
distinct to user practice, which, in my experience, can often be no
more than a reflection of colonial imposition, as a culture strives
to survive against all the odds).
mg
On 23 Jan 2007, at 17:11, scríobh Addison Phillips:
>> ...
> even if we all switched to using a mix of cuneiform and Bliss
> symbols tomorrow. For example, some measurements of the Web show
> that fully 50% of the text consists of (ASCII) markup.
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