[LINK] Killing the Web?

[Fred Pilcher]

At 12:42 6/10/00 +1100, Robin Whittle wrote:
>http://www.zdnet.com.au/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2636521,00.html
>
>This article paints a depressing and probably realistic picture of
>under-developed, complex, overly divergent (for commercial reasons)
>standards.  "Standardsitis" - a condition well known to the IT industry
>and people beavering away on ambitious standards committees.

Elegantly expressed, as always, Robin.

Then you said:
>In electronics, things get better rapidly.  Components become more
>capable, more compact, more reliable and cheaper.  If they were
>inelegant or unreliable, they wouldn't last long.

And I'd like to think that the same principle will apply to XML. It was a
good idea, but it's been so corrupted that it faces the fate of all
non-standard standards. I've got a dollar that says HTML has nothing to
worry about. Takers?

Fred