Re: Music Notation on the Web

Roger Cutler somewhat confused the attributions of some quotes in his note. 
  What he should have said is:

Mark Nottingham wrote:

> Isn't this discussion just one aspect of a more general topic -- the
> trend in the W3C away from declarative markup and towards an API-driven
> Web?


Noah Mendelsohn responded:

> No, in this case I think it's more fundamental, because the API and the
> markup in question are dealing with completely different levels of
> information.  The API is for waveform samples at, say, 44KHz.  The
> markup
> is for conveying musical scores, typically with features like key
> signatures, notes with specific durations, rests, etc.

Thank you.

Noah

Received on Friday, 17 December 2010 04:47:05 UTC