- From: Anthony Ettinger <apwebdesign@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:08:46 -0800 (PST)
- To: Douglas Clifton <dwclifton@gmail.com>, public-evangelist@w3.org
--- Douglas Clifton <dwclifton@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/22/05, Rob Lowe <Rob@dotcom-multimedia.com> > wrote: > > "This is pretty much true for any profession, > > especially technology because it changes so > quickly. 6 > > months later, whatever you know now could be > obsolete. > > The important thing is to learn the methodologies, > as > > those can be applicable to new technologies." > > The flipside to this argument is the time it takes > for new > technologies to become adopted or accepted. From the > standpoint of software development, the time it > takes > for software to become stable enough to be > considered > relatively free of defects. > > One example of the former is XHTML, how long has it > been > since the W3C released the recommendation as a > replacement > for HTML and what percentage of all pages are still > HTML? > > Economics drives, or rather slows down, this process > as > well. The Web is evolutionary, not revolutionary. > True, but is the open standards engineer that is the revolutionary :) Anthony Ettinger ph: (408) 656-2473 web: http://www.apwebdesign.com
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