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2/18/2002 11:38:41 AM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> wrote: >Do you really think the average office worker knows what the ><!DOCTYPE at the top of an HTML file is for? I don't. OTOH, >they don't code them. OK, I got carried away with the "average office worker" and HTML ... but I do think that lots of non-nerds learn enough HTML to tweak their homepages or weblogs, and simply ignore (and don't touch) the stuff they don't understand. I see my 9 year old doing it to tweak postings on a kids website (neopets.com), FWIW, without any prompting or explanation from me. Likewise with URIs; I can more easily imagine an "average" person accessing a Web service by tweaking a big ugly URL and putting the result in a frame or a table or formatted with CSS than I can imagine them buying VS.NET, installing some libraries to make a SOAP call from Javascript, sorting out when they must use XML-RPC and when they must use SOAP, etc. Anyway, I offer this as only "the only scenario under which RPC could decisively lose", not a prediction that it will happen.
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