HTML Design Principles is one of the things I'm most proud of writing (along with co-editor
@annevk
and its other contributors). Some of these principles have so won the day in web standards that it's hard to believe they were once controversial. For example, there used to be a major constituency _against_ supporting existing web content.

w3.org/TR/html-design-principl

@othermaciej I've always especially liked the Priority of Constituencies section of that document.

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@steveax That was also once controversial. The other position being a prioritization of elegance and theoretical purity over the other considerations.

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