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• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: What the .... ? Referencing XSL stylesheets across domains
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:13:43 -0500

As I said earlier, the Web can't deprecate its 
applications the way a business would.  Legacy 
builds in a business application to some point, 
and while promising upward compatibility, they 
cut off support.   HTML is like kudzu; amazingly 
resilient to heat, poison, incursions by other 
ecological competitors, and so on.  You can't 
kill it by talking it to death.  It has to be 
plowed under, and even then, it comes back it 
you don't get the remains out of the soil.

It may be time to build pure XML browsers that 
recognize XML applications (such as XHTML) and 
even SGML applications such as valid HTML, but 
reject the rest.

Well... that's a neat dream but I don't expect 
to see it.  I expect to see IE get ever more 
bloated.  Think of the fat cats of the robber 
barron period who's success is reflected in their 
girth.  By winning the browser war, IE and MS take 
on the burden of all the legacy.  Nichemeisters 
will be left to innovate XML-only web browsers.

Is there a market for it?  Hard to say.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:04 AM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  What the .... ? Referencing XSL stylesheets
across domains


Len writes:
> No.   HTML legacy is.
> 
> len
> 
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
> 
> Is IE the biggest barrier to
> XML on the Web?  Inquiring minds wonder frequently.

Given that a lot of IE's clunkiness with XML+CSS is its apparent
insistence on pouring XML into an HTML object model, I think I could
take that as agreement.

There is, of course, a cycle.  Web designers don't care about XML since
the browsers don't support it in forms that are easier for them -
learning XSLT is kind of a bother - so browser vendors can say they
don't support it because nobody cares.

Inertia is great stuff.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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