Hi,
Tim Berners-Lee's thoughts are also interesting.
Good summary at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060901-7650.html
I'm with Tim on this one. I cringe every time I hear the phrase "Web 2.0"
as it seems to be nothing more than a marketing buzzword if anyone can
actually define what it means. We've had SGML since 1980, XML since 1998
and of course all the effort (arguably in the face of some market
resistance) the W3C / IETF and others have put into the DOM, SVG, SMIL,
XML and friends, Atom etc. specifications has always been aimed at
creating a semantic web that's write as well as read.
Meanwhile, Internet Explorer 7 still comes nowhere near close to rendering
CSS properly (try the Acid2 test - Opera passes, Firefox comes close),
ECMAScript doesn't have an officially registered MIME-type and websites
are littered with basic coding errors such as, e.g., Birmingham Stories
(which I mention as it's previously been the subject of an MCG
presentation) having 607 validation errors on the home-page.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.birminghamstories.co.uk%2F
Accessibility is more than just presenting information in a way that's
accessible to people with impairments. It's also about presenting
information in a manner that's accessible to machines (e.g., Google's
indexing bot - almost certainly your most important user).
I fear that if we get caught up in the hype, we risk an expensive and
inefficient waste of resources and may get side-tracked into a "blog
everything" mentality that will nicely line the pockets of former "Flash
monkeys" but do little else to improve the fundamental quality of the web.
A better option would be to continue to work on getting the basics right -
campaign for better browsers (and / or use alternatives), create, support
and stick to standards and use validators as well as manual checks to
maximise content accessibility for people and machines.
Regards,
James
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Kostas Arvanitis wrote:
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:26:31 +0000
> From: Kostas Arvanitis <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Museums Computer Group <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: [MCG] Quick Introduction to Web 2.0
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> This response is also very interesting!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAVmB5dKZZ8&eurl=
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> Kostas.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Quick Introduction to Web 2.0
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> This is one of the best quick introductions to Web 2.0 that I've seen:
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
>
> (apart from the music, which is terrible).
>
> Cheers,
>
> T.
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