[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: W3C Schema: Resistance is Futile, says Don Box
Aaron Skonnard wrote: > >... > > Agreed. HTTP and HTML were not trivial to implement. Oh really? So I guess I'm hallucinating when I see client and server implementations of HTTP each in less than a thousand lines of code. HTML has *grown* to be difficult to implement (in its entirety) but it was not so in the early days. > ... Major vendors > embraced them and made it happen. Before the public had easy-to-use > browsers, they had no idea what resources were available to them. I > don't remember many successful ad-hoc browser implementations. What is an "ad hoc" implementation? Was Netscape a "major vendor"? NCSA? CERN? > > The Web didn't happen because the W3C and/or the major vendors made it > > happen, it HAPPENED. ... > > I completely agree. It was the *vendors* that made it happen. That is the most bizarre interpretation of history I've ever heard. How could Netscape have had a stratospheric IPO if it were not the fact that the Web was already an exciting information resource. Paul Prescod
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