[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: client side XML (was The relentless march of abstraction)
We'd be a whole lot closer if Navigator had a decent implementation of XSLT. People seem unwilling to commit to an IE-only approach, even if based on a standard, er recommendation. On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:41:49 -0800 Tim Bray wrote: >At 11:41 AM 27/02/01 -0500, David Megginson wrote: > > > I think that client-side XML failed simply because > > it didn't fill a big enough real need (HTML 4 is > > close enough) > >I have a problem with your verb tense. The web is >still too slow. Fatter pipes aren't going to help. The >only way to make it fast is to do some of the work on >the (severely underemployed, these days) client, and the >only way to do that is to send some useful data there to >get chewed on. So I think client-side XML just >hasn't got going yet. To say it had failed, it would be >necessary for it to have been tried. -Tim
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