Volition

Heh, there's a pretty enteratining flame-fest on the W3C's www-style list at the moment.

The two main protagonists seem to be one Shelby Moore, of origins unknown, and Ian Hickson; CSS WG Invited Expert, Apple employee, ex-Netscape empolyee, and major Mozilla contributor. No guesses as to who I agree with, I guess.

My favourite quote so far from Shelby:

>Ian Hickson wrote:
>>Shelby Moore wrote:
>>>If I markup all the dates in my document using a custom tag
>>> , it doesn't cause any harm.
>>
>>This is a huge misconception of the XML groupies.

XML "groupies" are also member of W3C and I wonder how they would react to
your characterization of them as "groupies".  Does that advance your
argument somehow??

>> It _does_ cause harm.

Go tell it on the XML mountain.  This list is not the proper forum.  In the
XML forum, the experts can properly debate you.

Heh, I wonder if he voted for George W. Bush as well?

I think, for the record, that embedding arbitrary tags in XHTML is considered harmful. I think Shelby needs to pull his head in; he's starting to sound too much like me when I'm backed into a corner.

More updates as more entertaining snippets found.