[mso] Re: Future of Front Page?

Actually, I will have moved on rather than be left behind as XML is 
*not* the embodiment of all that computing is. You're still in 
proprietary hell and you're moving more flab data than ever. XML ain't 
by buddy, buddy. ;)

XML was and is a cool idea and it's heavily abused. It's also not at all 
in line with what the web was supposed to be; simple, available to 
anyone with minimal experience and portable. It's a rare thing to find 
something on the web which still meets the criteria.

Greg

Steve Fredette wrote:

>From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  
>
>>That's not quite what I was after, Tina. Yeah, I've been at this for a
>>while, too, and the web largely abandoned my interest long ago. I used
>>to think WUSIWYG editors were the CAT and I was all thrilled until
>>HTML's basic tags were deprecated, XML and it's associated insanity,
>>    
>>
>
>    Hey now! No one picks on XML while I'm around ;-) If it wasn't for XML 
>we'd all be in proprietary hell right now.
>
>    Though, I do think MS might be making a huge mistake this year (not 
>talking about FP here), that may very well go down in history as when "Bill 
>jumped the shark".
>
>    With out going too OT here, if any of the following names to not make 
>sense to you (not you personally Greg, but anyone reading this) you may very 
>well be left behind in the year or so.
>
>Unbuntu
>Apache
>MySql
>NVU
>OpenOffice
>
>  
>

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