[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: It is Pretty Dumb (Was RE: Not so stupid (was re: More StupidXMLArti

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:49:50 -0400

At 04:22 PM 10/4/00 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>It is pretty dumb and he knows better. 

John Dvorak's stock in trade is making provocative statements about
computing so that people can say 'it is pretty dumb and he knows better.'

Sadly, however wrong Dvorak is about specifics, there's frequently some
core truth there, as David Megginson explained so well.

Why is this list getting so hyper-sensitive about any press that suggests
XML isn't perfect?

>HTML isn't going away soon.  XML saved it by giving 
>it a way to live a few years longer. 

You might want to take a look at XHTML-L for a bit more perspective on
that.  Not everyone's excited about 'being saved.'  

http://www.egroups.com/group/XHTML-L

Tough and very real questions.

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

• References:
  • It is Pretty Dumb (Was RE: Not so stupid (was re: More Stupid XMLArticles))
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>

• Prev by Date: Re: Not so stupid (was re: More Stupid XML Articles)
• Next by Date: Re: It is Pretty Dumb (Was RE: Not so stupid (was re: More Stupid XMLArticles))
• Previous by thread: It is Pretty Dumb (Was RE: Not so stupid (was re: More Stupid XMLArticles))
• Next by thread: Re: It is Pretty Dumb (Was RE: Not so stupid (was re: More StupidXMLArticles))
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread