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Re: RE: Tim Bray on "Which Technologies Matter?"

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• Subject: Re: RE: Tim Bray on "Which Technologies Matter?"
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 15 Mar 2002 19:12:08 -0500
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On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 17:52, Mike Champion wrote:
> Well, I had a similar reaction the first time I read the 
> presentation.  Then I turned it around: If it weren't for
> HTML and XML, no one (outside of our tiny little world 
> circa 1996) would argue that SGML "mattered." 

Heh.  I was a HyperCard guy who thought markup was an insanely complex
hassle.  The HyTime stuff I'd read while searching generally for
hypermedia looked downright catastrophic, and I thought for about a year
that HTML would go absolutely nowhere - markup just seemed insanely
grotesque.

Then I learned a little better... but still don't go near SGML per se.

And my hypermedia side is saddened but can't help agreeing with Bob
DuCharme's piece at:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/13/xlink.html

As much as I'd like to, I have a really hard time saying XLink matters
right now.  Kind of funny given my initial reaction to markup for
hypermedia and my eventual conversion.  Oh well.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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