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RE: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box

• To: "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@p...>
• Subject: RE: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box
• From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons@d...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:38:09 -0600
• Cc: "'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>,"'John Cowan'" <jcowan@r...>,"'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <3D04FA4B.9F61696@p...>

> Oh really? So I guess I'm hallucinating when I see client 
> and server implementations of HTTP each in less than a thousand 
> lines of code. HTML has *grown* to be difficult to implement 
> (in its entirety) but it was not so in the early days.

Ok, ok, I take it back. HTTP is probably trivial to implement (having
not implemented it fully myself). I brought it into the discussion
because it's something we all use yet I'm sure we could still find a
group of developers that thinks it technically [expletive deleted] for whatever
reason.

> > ... Major vendors
> > embraced them and made it happen. Before the public had easy-to-use
> > browsers, they had no idea what resources were available to them. I
> > don't remember many successful ad-hoc browser implementations.
> 
> What is an "ad hoc" implementation? Was Netscape a "major vendor"?
NCSA?
> CERN?

Yes, obviously Netscape was the first significant vendor. They made
another major vendor take notice and the rest is history.
 
> > > The Web didn't happen because the W3C and/or the major vendors
made it
> > > happen, it HAPPENED.  ...
> >
> > I completely agree. It was the *vendors* that made it happen.
> 
> That is the most bizarre interpretation of history I've ever heard.
How
> could Netscape have had a stratospheric IPO if it were not the fact
that
> the Web was already an exciting information resource.

That's easy, because the masses didn't understand the technology. Hope
and uncertainty drive the market.

-aaron

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