Hi all,
I am totally stunned. I will never understand why people bash Microsoft
so much. Okay they are a bunch leeches (any Microsoft staff
please excuse this term) but at least they are good at it.
Take Netscape for example. I have been developing web sites with
utilizing some of Netscape's advanced scripting features. Non of the
things I have developed 2 1/2 years ago still work. They had a great
VRML browser. Guess what they dumped (despite uproar of the developers)
and used Cosmoplayer instead. They are pretty much a company without
any direction. The recent buy out by AOL won't do much good either.
On the other hand I have just found a Word document I wrote 9 years ago.
I don't even know which version I used originally but it simply opened
in Word97. No problem.
To bring this back to the XML/RDF and metadata arena. MS is the only
company out there that has a fully functioning XML browser which
supports namespaces. They also make the XML parser available as a
standalone product for use in your own products. Okay it will only
work in a MS-Win environment but let's face it. 90% of this planet
is using some version of Windows.
And anyway wasn't XML/RDF one of the key components of DC???
So if it will become MS-Core great. It might finally be able to get
some real work done instead of messing around with slow Java
servelets and buggy Perl Scripts.
Thomas
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> John Stracke said:
>
> Promotion comes from companies promoting
> their own products that incorporate the standards;
>
> Thankyou! This is why I thought it would be a good idea to have Microsoft
> embracing DC.
> Let's face it - they will either embrace DC or develop their own ... they
> have to do _something_ ... I'd like to see that something be DC. If not,
> whatever they develop will be a powerful competitor to DC.
>
> Getting them to embrace it is not necessarily the samre thing as forming an
> alliance!
>
> Please respond to John Stracke <[log in to unmask]>
>
> From: John Stracke on 06/17/99 10:37 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> cc:
> Subject: Re: Dublin ...sorry... Microsoft Core [Was Re: Microsoft Si
>
> Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
>
> > M$ is not the right institution or partner for DC promotion, as goes
> without
> > saying, but some resourceful institution will have to be found to promote
> > and, more importantly, maintain DC, in the long run.
>
> Not necessarily. Most Internet standards do just fine with no designated
> entity to promote or maintain them. similarly, maintenance is
> done by companies who want new features in the standard so they can extend
> their products. This works better than having someone in charge, because
> the
> standard isn't as susceptible to being hijacked or abandoned. (Of course,
> every individual company might abandon the standard; but then it probably
> wasn't worthwhile, was it? :-)
>
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