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Tyler Baker wrote: > I wrote: > >...this month's Linux Journal - > > it describes how -both- up and coming desktop environments are basing > > major parts of their architectures on CORBA. KDE's so cool it makes me > > want to learn C++. :) > > > Prediction: In 3 years, half the people on this list will be using a > > corba-based desktop environment. > > Not likely. My biggest problem with CORBA was that it was too huge for the client and > consumed too many resources. Actually, I was implying that half of us will be using Linux, and therefore Corba, because it's now in the desktop environments. I -was- exagerating, but I think it's not extreme to predict that in 2-3 years Linux (with KDE or GNOME) will have broken out of the hacker-only world, and onto the desktop. > > > > Anyhow, this naturally makes me wonder - could XML and related ideas > > like XSL have a place in an operating system? Where would they fit in? > > KDE and Gnome could be great playgrounds for trying something like this > > out. > > They already do if you consider Internet Explorer a fundamental part of the Windows Operating > System (-: > Ouch. :) - Robb xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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