At 15:52 12.07.99 +0300, you wrote:
skipping some responses which I think miss my points by some yards...
>> However, one "open strategy" which would make life easier for all involved
>> would be to pursue open data interfaces, so that existing and future
>> software (commercial or free) can easily access existing data/projects etc.
>> (Did I mention XML before?-)
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>That is brilliant idea. Open and common file formats, protocols, interfaces,
>standards etc. is Good Thing(tm).
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>For example file format of M$ Word is just proprietary "standard" and
>it changes between versions of Word without forewarnings. Open
>standards like XML and SGML are created together with different people
>from different organizations. Everybody has equal possibility to create
>products that follows those standards.
I suspect that you are not really in love with Microsoft?-) (I visited your
web page) Although we are also frequently bashing MS when coping the
"features" of their operating systems and development tools, you should
know the following:
Without MS pushing the development of XML/XSL/XQL in the W3C, on their
information pages (excellent XML tutorials) and within their products (MS
Office 2000 "speaks" XML !!), further by offering a powerful
redistributable XML parsing module for developers building XML aware
software, they are indeed doing an excellent job in making this new idea
common. (Well, with some MS specific add-ons of course!-).
That IE5 is currently the only browser capable of directly displaying
XML/XSL is not MS' fault, but the sleepiness of the competitors.
- Thomas
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