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Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wa rs!
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:07:02 -0600
• Cc: "'Paul Prescod'" <paul@p...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> of "Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:28:39 CDT." <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE0DF7E3@h...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> I have been carefully saying "HTML Browser". A
> client can be web-aware and XML-capable and 
> never touch HTML.  So we agree.  A dedicated 
> client may not be browsing; it may be processing 
> only that XML that it cares about.  My position 
> is that, and I did say this, that what we 
> call a web browser could change.  In that sense, 
> any client on the system can be web aware and 
> can still be smart.

So when you said "the broswer lost", you meant "the browser evolved"?  I know 
that's less cool sounding, but saying so up front would have saved us all a 
lot of talking past each other.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p
y.html
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind
ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in
dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807
Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork
s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html

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