HTML works out pretty well. If our biggest failures were 'failures' like HTML, we'd be doing pretty well. Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: > From: "Walker, David" <[log in to unmask]> > >> I'm not sure it's a _big_ mess, though, at least for metasearching. >> > > I wasn't thinking specifically about metasearch, but rather, bad decisions > getting replicated and you end up with an installed base of bad > implementations. The best illustration would be the huge mess that HTML is. > > --Ray > >