jon * wrote:
<snip>
> > It depends, as everything. In my humble experience, designers have
> > _much_ less troubles in understanding markup that orthogonal syntax.
> > Moreover, markup it's much more "GUI-friendly".
>
> I'm sorry Stefano, but this is when I pull my 5 years of experience growing
> a 130 person web design shop thing over your head. A lot of designers can
> barely do HTML and good javascript experience is a luxury...
>
Ug. Don't say something like that. It is rude. In my last 5 years I
built an entire network infrastructure and applications deployment env
across the entire East coast and built what was at the time the largest
ISP and web hosting facility in the world... but I don't leverage that
to make my case.
The truth is that XML web publishing *is* the future. I am sorry jon
but you are wrong here. It disappoints me that you haven't seen the
light yet. The only way to have non programmers deal with content is
with XML and XSLT. The most important thing is that they are already
used to dealing with that type of content. I mean is it easier for
non-web people to deal with:
<hello-world/>
or
$hello-world
I would say the former. With a toolkit like Webmacro you don't get
validation, schema, structure, etc. Turbine is where it is at not
because of the fact that is has webmacro/screen/layout/etc integration
but because it is a great API.
Let's also not forget all the domain related technology. SVG, SMIL,
RDF, etc. These would all be desperate hacks in JSP, ASP, Webmacro, etc
Truth be said, JSP/ASP/Webmacro/etc are all dead. XSP will be the
future. Say what you want about temporary advantages but XSP has the
long term advantages. At Excite I am in the process of joining a new
group and hopefully devoting most of my time towards Cocoon 2.0/Tomcat
and replacing excite.com with full XSP driven content. Talk about the
killer application and proving ground!
Kevin
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