- From: Dharmesh Mistry <Dharmesh.Mistry@edgeipk.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:14:30 +0100
- To: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, <www-forms@w3.org>
Good point ;o) It was the consumers (buyers) that decided not the engineers. So WF2 assumes developers don't want to re-skill, but Xforms assumes that the rendering flexibility of Xforms is more important ? --------------------------------------------------------------- Dharmesh Mistry CTO, edge IPK E: dharmesh@edgeipk.com M: 07789 222 015 Newbury Office T +44 (0) 1635 231 231 (ext 221) F +44 (0) 1635 569 371 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. edge IPK Limited Registered office - 9 Wardle Avenue, Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire RG31 6JR Registered in England No. 4286817 -----Original Message----- From: Elliotte Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu] Sent: 05 September 2006 15:25 To: Dharmesh Mistry Cc: Lachlan Hunt; Steven Pemberton; www-forms@w3.org Subject: Re: XForms and Web Forms 2.0 Dharmesh Mistry wrote: > I agree with Mark Birbeck, however taking a pure technology route we all > know that BetaMax was better than VHS, but VHS won the standards war. We may all know that, but that doesn't make it true. VHS won because it was better along the axis that consumers cared about more: recording time. BetaMax was superior along an axis that consumers cared about much less: picture quality. See http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,881780,00.html -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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