Reiterating what John and Robert said.
I too often see people who love their technology and see it as the
solution to every problem. When all you have is a hammer, then
everything looks like a nail.
There are very good reasons for unstructured content, that can just as
easily be marked up in
Structured markup has been around longer than the web, PDFs, online
help, or personal computers.
Since you make your living from structured content, I'm not going to
waste time explaining why it's not the best choice for every set of
requirements, and why people are still creating interesting and
Structured is the right way to do if it is the right way to go...not
because it is structured.
John X Posada
AVP | Global Risk Analytics | HSBC North America Holdings Inc
330 Madison Ave., NY NY
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I disagree...you have the tool doing the driving instead of the
requirement.
If I want interesting, I'll go white water rafting. It's mind-sets like
this that cause $10,000.00 projects to get budgeted at $100,00.00
John X Posada
AVP | Global Risk Analytics | HSBC North America Holdings Inc
330 Ma
I guess you are suggesting that "short term solution" is an oxymoron.
Short term patch, short term fix, but a solution implies long term. The
use of the words patch or fix, communicates to the customer that they need
to start thinking long term.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:01 PM, wrote:
> Pat, I
Pat, I'd like to assert that structured content is generally THE answer,
period. Nothing interesting happens with unstructured content anymore,
because the technology is decades old. Any technical writer in a
high-demand environment should be using structured content. If you are
not, you are now cl
