Allan Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's also interesting to note that, in part, the resurgence of > standards based development can be attributed to the non-standard > xmlhttprequest javascript object (thank you Microsoft - can't believe > I said that - although the gears are now set in motion to make it a > standard since everyone loves it so).
Or this could all simply indicate that the W3C is being very sensible and not trying to push standards beyond what people are actually doing or want to do. HTML/XML/RDF are perfectly adequate for all our data description needs and all are standardized. Indeed, the W3C may be waiting for us, the users, to point the way with constraints. Hence microformats are proving more popular than RDF. Remember, standards aren't spurious things... you only need one where you need one /8-> The example you give of Flash is an interesting one... but SVG has also come a long way and is a similarly complex technology. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
