Roelof- Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 1:58:47 PM, you wrote:
RO> Why are you both bashing Microsoft and stating that they're the RO> standard everyone should adhere too? Now, now, Roelof...just because M$ is switching over to xml doesn't mean that it's a M$ standard. RTF *is* becoming a thing of the past, being replaced by HTML in its various forms on the web. XML is getting to be the standard for data interchange in just about every place where data gets exchanged. IMO that's the only reason that M$ is moving in that direction. XML was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org, who, since they're not in the business or developing software, have neither an axe to grind nor a product to push. You can count on M$ to do their usual "embrace and extend" stuff to coopt XML, but it's an open standard. -Mark Wieder Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 -- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
