[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Microsoft's Universal Canvas
Who will do it best, is one issue, but it isn't a far fetched notion at all. SGML editors traditionally accessed DTDs to enable administrators to tailor tasks to requirements by roles. This enabled some to see that if the definitions were also dynamic, either rule-based, query-based, whatever, this kind tailoring could be applied more broadly and more specifically. Papers have been written on such for at least a decade (enterprise engineering). Rendering and interoperation across different platforms were the more tangible constraints. Paper tiger constraints such as "thou shalt not do graphics or program in markup" were a political but nevertheless very real problem. Now that most of these are non-issues, the universal canvas becomes tangible. It will be interesting to see how easily such environments are managed and administrated. Part of the costs that must be maintained are the long term configurations. In other words, plug and play may be a lot tougher. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/lensongs.ram Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h From: Ashvil [mailto:ashvil@i...] Anyone has any thoughts or comments on a Universal Canvas or think it will still remain a holy grail. Regards, Ashvil *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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