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Re: Improved writing -- who's going to pay for it?

• From: Joseph Kesselman/Watson/IBM <keshlam@u...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:09:41 -0400

Rick asked:
> Is it therefore not sensible to do
> "usability testing" (involving real users)
> on documents?

Sure. But see the subject line. Also, this takes time, so it may simply be
one of the things you give up when you expect development to occur in
"web-years" rather than calendar years.

Let's face it: If XML was a commercial product, we'd still be in beta-test
on many of the things which are now RECs.

______________________________________
Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

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