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On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:07:03PM -0500, David Lyon wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2005 08:18 pm, Liam Quin wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:58:17AM -0500, David Lyon wrote: >>> Interesting to hear about W3C meetings.... >>> in the real world it's: >>> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/297/5585/1259 >> >> Interesting to hear you think W3C isn't in the "real world" -- >> are we perceived as too academic (by you at least) or do >> we ocupy some alternate universe? :-) > > Hey... don't argue with me, I know I'm crazy.... :-) > but no one doubts that the W3C is a very respectable organisation.. > > I imagine that there is no food throwing... and no one brings mud or sand > through the doors on their shoes.... what more could anyone want? Actually I don't usually wear shoes at all. > but are small business and big business alternate universes? yes > they are... I think that the majority of our Members are businesses, and further that most of those are smaller rather than larger, althoug we certainly have some very large organizations who participate. > Is Industrial America different than industrial Asia ? yes. Here we do agree. > Does India have much xml for all its programmers ? no. We don't charge for XML by the tag :-) I know of quite a few XML programming teams in India, although statistically I've no idea what percentage it is of course. XML isn't itself a programming language of course, although XSLT blurs the distinction, so the question is how many of them are consciously working with XML (rather than, say, using a graphical desktop that stores preferences or window themes in XML, not uncommon these days). > What does this mean ? That you guys are so pre-occupied with > the APIs that you're not really working on better ways to use > what you have got..... Strictly speaking we don't do APIs (the DOM is about as close as we get, but even that is largely defined in a language-independent way) but you may be right that we spend too much time building and not enough time living. Thanks for replying. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
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