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On 12/20/10 5:13 AM, Michael Kay wrote: > These kind of statements assume far more homogeneity than actually > exists. It's like saying "Programmers don't like Erlang". Yeah. I hate to put it so bluntly, but I think the XML community needs to get out more, meet some new people, and figure out what other communities look like. (That's been true for over a decade, unfortunately.) > Web developers range from content designers and content authors who have > taught themselves a bit of HTML and Javascript, to professional > programmers who are more comfortable with Java and SQL than with > anything on the client, via developers whose primary expertise and > training is in creating web pages. Within each of these groups, there > are communities who like and dislike different technologies; and within > each of these, there are some who recognize that their likes and > dislikes are subjective and should not affect technology choices, and > others who fail to make this distinction. Also, of course, the vast > majority of web developers get little say when it comes to selecting the > technologies they are using. Yes. That last point may in fact be the most important one, especially for developers working on the client side of application development. > There are plenty of examples where a technology that is generally liked > is used far less than one that is generally disliked - RNG/XSD being a > prime example. There are also many technologies (XSLT being an obvious > example) that some people love and others hate (with a silent majority > who just use it to do the job in hand, judging it by its effectiveness > rather than its aesthetics). Indeed. -- Simon St.Laurent http://simonstl.com/
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