[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] XUL Standardization: Lessons from the RSS Civil War
Hi, I just stumbled over Tim Bray's blog entry titled "I Like Pie". Tim comments on Sam Ruby's new initiative code-named "Pie" to create a new RSS (Really Simple Syndication) format to end the civil war between the RSS 0.9* crowd, the RSS 1.0 crowd, and the RSS 2.0 crowd. I guess I'm not breaking any news here so let's move on and see how this fits the XUL campaign. I think the RSS standardization is a great real-world case-study and warm-up excercise for the coming XUL standardization and Tim Bray's blog post offers tons of insight from a veteran responsible for the W3C XML spec among others. Here are some quotes: <tim> What To Call It? Call me an idealistic dreamer, but Iâ??d like to go on calling it RSS; a nice simple easy-to-remember TLA [three letter acronym] that even has a minor little beach-head in the popular consciousness. </tim> The wise man says stick with XUL. <tim> Take It To a Standards Org? I think that in the long run it would be good if RSS or Pie or whatever werenâ??t â??An XXX Specificationâ?, where XXX is any of Userland or IBM or Microsoft or Textuality or, well, you get the idea. I think that the reasons for this are so obvious that Iâ??m not going to waste your time walking through them. </tim> The wise man says a Mozilla specification is a joke. <tim> Donâ??t go to W3C, which is just too popular, these days, for its own good. If we could convince W3C to launch a Working Group (which would take months) there would instantly be 75 or more companies who wanted to join it, because RSS is Hot Stuff. Itâ??s not entirely impossible they could do a good job, but it is entirely possible they could really screw it up. </tim> The wise man says the W3C is not the place for hot stuff such as XUL. <tim> Four Points Itâ??s easy enough to summarize. What I care about is that we build something thatâ??s: * 100% vendor neutral, * implemented by everybody, * freely extensible by anybody, and * cleanly and thoroughly specified. </tim> Full story @ http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/23/SamsPie Any comments? - Gerald PS: For more info about XUL (XML UI Language) check out the XUL Alliance Site @ http://xul.sourceforge.net PPS: If you think this post is off-topic for the xml-dev crowd please join the xul-talk mailinglist @ http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
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