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Michael Champion wrote: > The W3C is not some > monolithic organization doing things for obscure and sinister purposes, Aw, shucks. *finger-snap* > I don't see how the > W3C benefits from over-hyping a promised spec that proves underwhelmingly > capable or overwelmingly complex in practice. "Publicity is good. Good publicity is even better." > In short, I see the "questionable" behavior that was noted (some of it which > I have no trouble with, such as the deprecation of SGML ... and other that I > deplore, such as the growing complexity of the XML-related specs) as the > result of ordinary mortals trying to do so much in so little time, not > self-serving calculation by the W3C or its members. I agree with this. > Something like XML Schema is so complex > because it is the product of 35 (or whatever) people with at least that many > separate agendas. And Infoset is lucidly simple because I myself designed and wrote it with very little interference (or even input) from anybody. :-) :-) > W3C specs fully demonstrate > the truth of the adage "a camel is a horse invented by a committee". If you > want something swift, graceful and beautiful, don't require it to go without > food or water for a week while surviving extremes of heat and cold. But I don't understand; camels *are* swift, graceful, and beautiful! > Ruthless elimination of complicating > constraints will be much more effective than attempts to eliminate > self-serving behavior, even if such a thing were possible. Unfortunately, discarding Real World constraints produces the beautiful product that nobody uses. "Worse is better." -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@r...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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