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Re: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot?

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• Subject: Re: Does WTSIWYG make simplicity moot?
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:59:36 +0000

[Tony Coates]
 >On the other hand, Authority does things with namespaces in W3C XML 
Schemas that
 >other validators don't accept, and I had to stop people from using it to
 >prettyprint the Schemas I generate for MDDL.  So here is a tool that in one
 >circumstance is a boon, and in another is a source of problems.  There are no
 >silver bullets.

Oh yes there is. Simplicity is the silver bulllet. Simplicity always supports
a text editor interface.

W3C XML Schemas needs pretty GUI tools in order
to manage a complexity that is man made - not ab initio.

McGrath's Conspiracy theory of technology complexity:
         "Any software technology that positively, absolutely needs a GUI is
         probably more complicated than is strictly necessary."

:-)

Sean


http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com

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