W3: The Group That Rules the Web
When the Web was brand new, many computer-savvy people despised it—compared to other hypertext-publishing systems, it was a primitive technology. For example, you could link from your Web page to any other page, but you couldn’t know when someone linked to your Web page. Nor did the Web allow you to edit pages in your browser. To élite hypertext thinkers and programmers, these were serious flaws.
.. “Technology standardization is commercial diplomacy,” wrote Stephen R. Walli, the senior director of platform engineering at Corbis Images and a veteran of many such efforts, in a paper on the subject, “and the purpose of individual players (as with all diplomats) is to expand one’s area of economic influence while defending sovereign territory.” Or, as Charles F. Goldfarb—who co-created a forerunner to HTML called Standard Generalized Markup Language, in 1974—once delicately put it, on an e-mail list: “Multi-year projects in a highly political arena with changing personnel contributes to a loss of focus.” Which is to say: standards, like laws, emerge from fundamental conflict.
.. The automatic validator is an encoded belief system. Not every Web site offers valid HTML, just as not every Catholic eschews pre-marital sex.
.. Using EmotionML, this is how you would indicate a pleasure value of 0.5:
<emotion dimension-set=”http://www.w3.org/TR/emotion-voc/xml#pad-dimensions”><dimension name=”pleasure” value=”0.5″/></emotion>