• To: "K. Ari Krupnikov" <ari@c...>
• Subject: Re: Whitepapers and ScreenShots of Office 11 XML Features
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:37:02 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:

>>Except for, they're usually not.  Good docs are thin on the ground.
>>The virtue of the Web was that you could figure it out yourself anyhow
>>by doing a "view source".
> 
> Except most of those who viewed source *didn't* figure it out, and
> that lead to tag soup.

Are you serious?  The Web was only the most successful grass-roots mass 
technology roll-out in history.  People got it well enough to write web 
content and web software, both in huge quantities.  -Tim

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