- From: T. V. Raman <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:14:38 -0700
- To: "Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer" <schnitz@mozquito.com>
- Cc: "Michael Earls" <michael@cerkit.com>, <www-forms@w3.org>
Hear Hear!
>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer <schnitz@mozquito.com> writes:
Sebastian> <snip>...</snip> Let's finish up XForms and
Sebastian> watch as it takes 10 years to get rid of all
Sebastian> of the User Agents we have today in exchange
Sebastian> for the "new" XForms UA. <snip>...</snip>
Sebastian> I'm taking my hat as XForms co-chair off,
Sebastian> because based on this one sentence I must
Sebastian> tell *you* to relax here. I have nothing
Sebastian> about the rest of the email, but such a
Sebastian> statement let's me and the other people think
Sebastian> what we are doing here is completely
Sebastian> worthless. I think such a statement is
Sebastian> completely counterproductive, it is thinking
Sebastian> of the type that everything is at it is and
Sebastian> you cannot change things so you shouldn't
Sebastian> even try to do so. I'm not sure out of which
Sebastian> camp you're coming from, but if more people
Sebastian> would think like you, XML and even the Web
Sebastian> itself would have never taken off in the
Sebastian> first place.
Sebastian> Let me tell you that there will be a myriad
Sebastian> ways for XForms to penetrate the market. The
Sebastian> old Netscape/Microsoft desktop browser web
Sebastian> world is long gone, we have a bunch of new
Sebastian> devices, markets and players, all to which
Sebastian> XForms is targetted towards. XForms is *not*
Sebastian> something purely intended for Netscape and
Sebastian> Microsoft to adopt, but the next generation
Sebastian> of web forms for *all* XML-based
Sebastian> applications, the basis of all interactivity
Sebastian> and business on the web, and the first major
Sebastian> improvement to web forms since 1993! This
Sebastian> thing will take off big time, it has already.
Sebastian> - Sebastian
Sebastian> There's a lot of work to be done to spend so
Sebastian> much time arguing over elitist attitudes
Sebastian> about colored paper and special glasses.
Sebastian> My .02.
Sebastian> Michael Earls
Sebastian> -----Original Message----- From:
Sebastian> www-forms-request@w3.org [
Sebastian> mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
Sebastian> T. V. Raman Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001
Sebastian> 10:02 AM To: Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer Cc:
Sebastian> Andrea Marchetti; www-forms@w3.org;
Sebastian> steven.pemberton@cwi.nl Subject: RE: www 10
Sebastian> conference
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Sebastian> From: "Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer"
Sebastian> <schnitz@mozquito.com> To: "Andrea Marchetti"
Sebastian> <Andrea.Marchetti@iat.cnr.it>,
Sebastian> <www-forms@w3.org>, <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
Sebastian> Subject: RE: www 10 conference Date: Mon, 9
Sebastian> Apr 2001 18:49:26 +0200
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Sebastian> -- Best Regards, --raman
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--raman
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