On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> > Thankfully, lately I can respond "Heard of XML ?".
>
> Beware: There is no silver bullet. (If you haven't read _The Mythical
> Man-Month_, by Fred Brooks, then... you should.) XML is a great idea, but it
> will not solve all our problems. In particular, formally defining the syntax
> of your extension does not make it an open standard.
True, check out http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/06/13/threemyths.html
I'm not sure how this ties in to Brooks (which I have read, and thanks to you
it's back in the queue; damnit). Yes, you could get an XML stream that says
"Freds exist and you deal with them by using THIS (tm, proprietary thingy) but
in a world where choice is the default, the THISs of the world would get ported
pretty quickly.
I don't mean to be a cheerleader for XML, I just think that there's hope there.
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> > I disagree that the W3 experience is diminished for Linux users. That is
> > too subjective of a statement. It all depends on the individules needs.
>
> The average induhvidual just wants to browse the web with the least amount
> of trouble. Unfortunately, a large number of so-called "web sites" are really
> applications written for Microsoft Internet Explorer. This leads to MSIE
> being the browser of choice for the average induhvidual.
>
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