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And HTML isn't going away. It is kudzu. Too hard to kill without powerful poison and poison that powerful makes the ground unsuitable for planting anything else. If XML works as it is supposed too, why would one have to insist on the client being anything other than an XML consuming client? They do insist on a Schema. Does XForms? len From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] 10/15/2002 4:19:32 PM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote: > The browser wars are over. The browser lost. Definitely one for the quotes file! Not sure I agree however. Metcalfe's Law hasn't been repealed yet. Even a small value for HTML, multiplied by the square of all those XML nodes out there, comes out to be a very substantial number. If you (and Microsoft) are talking about industrial-strength behind-the-firewall data entry forms, I wouldn't disagree that the value that can be provided by a fat client (or Flash/Curl/whatever plugins) could be substantial. But if you're talking about commerce over the Web, I can't see anyone insisting that XDocs (or a plug-in that isn't automatically installed in every browser on earth, as is Flash) is necessary before they will accept your money.
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