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True, but anyone who thinks there is a straight line for the emergence of hypermedia's place in technology doesn't read enough or wasn't around for some of these bits. I think people need simple stories and heros for the same reasons that people need HTML: it gives them confidence until they realize they need more than that to keep up with the evolving requirements. We did manage to give away the IADS executables and they were used to convince some important folks that contrary to the rant from NIST at that time, SGML hypertext does work. There were fascinating politics in that era. It really does help at the emergence point if some forces are ignoring the technology. Still, gencoding wins every time if one chooses simpler or worse is better over evolvable and that is a lesson for the namespace supporters. len -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@r...] EBT can very, very close to this... but one of the things I've found (especially after looking back over the last 7 years or so) is that "almost did it" ain't good enough. Too many good intentions, and the associated roads...
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