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• To: peter murray-rust <pm286@c...>
• Subject: RE: [SUMMARY #1] Why is there little usage of XML on the'visible Web'?
• From: David Lyon <david.lyon@p...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:03:00 +1000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 10:37 +0100, peter murray-rust wrote:

> We have been continually destroyed and undermined by the browser 
> manufacturers - including Firefox - which have failed to give us any 
> stability on the client side. We have built many systems including 
> CMLRSS, Java applets, Javascript, etc. only to see each new "browser 
> upgrade" stop them working.

This is true.

> My question to the list is "Can this list DO something - not talk, 
> but DO - that will create a technology and culture for  increasing 
> real XML over the web." Can we identify enough existing lightweight 
> technology that could be combined and promoted to act as a 
> non-browser-based solution?

Quite possibly. 


> Those who weren't around in 1998 - when SAX was developed on this 
> list - might like to know that David Megginson led a communal 
> activity with 100 participants and the spec was developed in a month. 
> This project will be harder, but not, I believe, impossible. I 
> believe all the components are there, that it can be tied to the REST 
> philosophy. 

For me the whole tone of this mailing list has suddenly changed. Every
year I seem to come along and clang walking sticks with the other
geriatrics and get repelled. I lose the arguments but things in my own
mind things get more clarified. Off I go back to the real world -
charged up again.

Of course, I'm sure that with your skill-set and influence, you would be
able to pull off anything that you set your mind to and convince
whatever parties you see beneficial to come to the table.

Regards

David

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