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Michael Kay said: [misconceptions, partial thoughts, and other stuff deleted] > Or of course you can stand on the sidelines and throw mud. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ "The W3C's critics have lit on a handful of the group's recent decisions and initiatives, including its handling of a recent patent controversy, the formation of a separate group to tackle strategy making and problem solving, and a controversial push to develop a type of artificial intelligence called the Semantic Web." "The W3C's most vocal critics say the group is neglecting Web services in favor of a pie-in-the-sky vision to endow computers with logical powers." "For now, criticism of the W3C appears to be concentrated among software sellers and other large companies making bets on Web services." "I think developers are being poorly served by the fact that the big companies have dominated the work of the W3C over the last year. The W3C does more or less what its members tell it to." [http://news.com.com/2100-1023-834990.html] "Not changed: brutal criticism of the W3C, especially XML Schema." "Perhaps reflecting a loss of credibility, though, wide-scale initiatives like Web 2.0 play less by W3C rules." "Changed: the W3C now has a Working Group which says that Binary XML is necessary, feasible, and that a single solution could serve everybody's needs." "Not changed: nobody's paying attention to the W3C's grander proclamations." [http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2005/09/14/goodbye-xml-deviant.html] "The XSLT Hammer" [http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2001/08/15/architecturalstyle.html] Old Patents attempt [http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/10/03/w3c.proposal.idg/index.html] Against FO for the web [http://people.opera.com/howcome/1999/foch.html] Of course, FO had found a niche in the printing industry but last bits in CSS [http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2005/01/19/print.html] suggest that CSS will be prefered for both on- and off-line. WHATWG and criticism to w3c specs and ways [http://www.whatwg.org/] [http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/opera.html] MathML has been rejected by most *mathematicians* and a few days ago the Web Applications ceased to recommend the usage of MathML in the spec. ... Juan R. Center for CANONICAL |SCIENCE)
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