Re: What you zebra? was Re: Correction Re: Foreseeing the Web, was Re: CONFESSIONS OF A CHEERFULLIBERTARIAN By David Brin

From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 02:23:32 MST


"What you zee is what you get". That's right, isn't it?

Emlyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 1:33 PM
Subject: What you zebra? was Re: Correction Re: Foreseeing the Web, was Re:
CONFESSIONS OF A CHEERFULLIBERTARIAN By David Brin

> Emlyn wrote:
> > a primitive WYZIWYG html editor that he built himself.
>
> Umm, that's WY_S_IWIG.
>
> Ironic that one of your listed "similar" things (all the popular M$
> apps, evidently, lumped together) yield files you *really* don't want to
> manipulate by hand.
>
> I'd say the closest direct parallel to HTML in the text-processing field
> is probably ROFF/NROFF/TROFF and variants, and you'll notice what a huge
> market share they've garnered today. :)
>
> > The goals of machine readability, etc, etc, of XML are laudable. How
long do
> > you reckon they'll last in the face of big commercial interests & a
zillion
> > (well, many million) users of various flavours, with their own ideas
about
> > how they want to use this thing called the web?
>
> I can predict one thing about the future of the Web. It will continue to
> suck, but not quite as much as not having it.
>
> I'm not real fond of gravy, either (feh!). :)
>
> OTOH, nobody (=="not enough bodies") so far seems to have wanted
> xanalogical storage very badly, and that's pretty much "soup". People
> have gotten used to herding piles of named files around, even though
> that's like calling a houseful of mice by name.
>



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