On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:01, Arnold van Kampen wrote: > Hi > > What is the use of all this fancy prabably clean software concepts, > program in xml, process it, get xml again and yield content for any > kind of medium be it wap tv or screen. > > I thought Wap was dead. I wonder about tv or industrial area appliences. > So the main reasing probably is still the use in browsers. > > Xml is usefull as a document exchange standard. I rememeber jsp/tomcat > where configuration is done in xml format, or in mod_DAV where xml > documents are exchanged between client and server. > > > But what if plugins like flash simply take over content geneation. > Is all this more than an excercise for software lovers exploring the > possibilities of xml for generating browser content? > > > Isn't all the tag stuff superseded by tools used by graphical > professionals like flash? > > > > No offence though > Arnold van Kampen
Uh, there will always be multiple media. Just consider the situation where you want to provide both printable and browsable content. I'm building some large financial systems right now, and very often they need forms both online and in PDF. I don't know what you mean by "plugins like Flash take over content generation" really. Are you suggesting that web sites will be built entirely in Flash in the future? I doubt this will come to pass. 1) It requires special tools to build flash, you can build HTML or XML with a text editor or with scripts. 2) If you DO want multi-media stuff ala Flash you can use SMIL and SVG, and maybe XSL-FO for that. Its non-proprietary and since it is XML you can apply XSLT to it etc. giving the advantages of both. 3) It still doesn't address the problem of ALL media. I doubt Flash is ever going to be the best choice for presenting every single media type, and who wants to wait for Macromedia to get around to supporting the feature you particularly want? The web has taught me one thing, proprietary presentation formats are dead. 4) You STILL have data interchange issues. Even client software sometimes wants to process information (and I am guessing that with XSLT in the browser that will become a more and more realistic and eventually mandatory thing). It may well be true that your average jizzy consumer web site could eventually use Flash for most of its front end, but I think SVG would be more likely to fill that role, and again, thats XML. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
