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RE: A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature o


RE:  A multi-step approach on defining object-oriented nature o
> Len wrote:
>
> That's nuts.  No sane vendor requires their production users
> to read specifications to figure out why the vendors' products
> don't work right, and no experienced manager blames the
> specifications.  

Sure they do. When the problem space is inherently complex, how simple
can the solution be? Learning the specifications is part of working in
the problem space and organizations everywhere pay hefty bucks to
educate their developers towards that end goal. 

I remember in the early days of MSXML's XPath implementation, you could
evaluate an XPath expression without prefixes (e.g., /foo/bar/baz)
against a namespace-qualified document (using a default namespace, no
prefixes) and it would actually identify the elements. So even though
this seemed like "it worked" to the user, it was actually broken wrt to
the XPath specification.

Microsoft can't simplify the namespace madness without contradicting the
layered specifications, annoying the rest of the industry, and being
accused of anti-open/standard practices.


> They accept the responsibility to fix the problem.

That assumes they CAN fix the problem.
 
> Get this through your head:  <strong>They Blame Microsoft.</strong>
> It is YOUR problem.

It's everyone's problem. It would sure be nice to see the W3C take
action along these lines.

-aaron

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