That's only one distinct component. HTML vs XHTML was also a distinct aspect (syntax ambiguity was a lesser problem than larger ambiguity. The WHATWG fiasco is IMO more important to the point that low quality half baked new features is not an accident but a goal.)
XHTML reveals though that HTML won on ambiguity over pedantic error identification. The adopters it needed rallied against anything that would tell them what they should do from day 1 to unambiguously say what they mean. Starting with a fundamentally flawed demo, blog, shop that ropes in some commitment and gradually fixing things on the in-for-a-dime-in-for-a-dollar investor is basically the whole business model of most fields if you exclude exchanges between the top 1-10% of buyers and sellers, which have an entirely different structure.
Even things like Facebook are an example of the manure first model. I wouldn't be stupid enough to let Zuckerberg plan lunch and as an investor I'm about as savvy as someone who bet against HTML. A billion flies can't be wrong as the saying goes.
XHTML reveals though that HTML won on ambiguity over pedantic error identification. The adopters it needed rallied against anything that would tell them what they should do from day 1 to unambiguously say what they mean. Starting with a fundamentally flawed demo, blog, shop that ropes in some commitment and gradually fixing things on the in-for-a-dime-in-for-a-dollar investor is basically the whole business model of most fields if you exclude exchanges between the top 1-10% of buyers and sellers, which have an entirely different structure.
Even things like Facebook are an example of the manure first model. I wouldn't be stupid enough to let Zuckerberg plan lunch and as an investor I'm about as savvy as someone who bet against HTML. A billion flies can't be wrong as the saying goes.