- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:17:38 -0800
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
- CC: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM
[Todd Freter:] | > Yes. I cannot emphasize too strongly the importance of this point. | > HTML is almost perfectly suited to the problem space it was originally | > designed to address, and for that reason it will probably be around | > for decades to come. It is a big mistake to position XML as | > competition to HTML. XML is not going to take over HTML's problem | > space, and suggesting that it might just generates needless hostility. | | Really? No comparison of XML and HTML? [...] I didn't say that XML should not be compared to HTML. I said that it should not be positioned as competition to HTML. You can compare a Honda Civic to a Mack truck. But you can't sensibly position a Honda Civic as competition to a Mack truck. They targeted for different markets. Jon
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