Well, he and I could have a fine discussion sometime. But the key thing is that he managed to navigate the whole standards morass and come out the other side with a standard which is both extremely widely adopted and extensible enough to survive into the future.
Given the difficulties of doing that, especially when Microsoft starts throwing their weight around, I think he did pretty darned well. While I could have designed something similar to do the same jobs -- no doubt, so could he, but neither of us could have gotten it adopted as a standard! But I'm sympathetic when people grumble about having to learn to deal with the complexities. I don't know that I could have done namespaces any more simply, however. Their DOM implementation could have been done better... On Mar 8, 4:50 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob Kerns wrote: > > Agreed, and for many applications, I prefer JSON. If I'd designed > > XML, it would have been a lot simpler. > > Ummmm...Tim Bray is a member of this group, or at least he used to be. > > (Mr. Bray: don't worry -- I've got your back!) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
