- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:54:05 -0000
- To: <www-html@w3.org>, "William Loughborough" <love26@gorge.net>
- Cc: <www-talk@w3.org>
> The only problem I have with it is that it should be accessible to > "people" and not *just* to the "subsetof" called "programmers". You can't seriously want me to belive that programmers are people too :-) Some of the trouble with RDF and Schemas is their complexity, but also the fact that they are unlimited in their uses. Whereas XHTML is very simple in it's aim, and powerful in its results, RDF is *too* powerful for people (most people, not programmers) to get to grips with. That's why I dream of creating hybrid systems like ADotSW http://www.mysterylights.com/sbp/adotsw/ I think that the RDF syntax would need canonizing before it were to be used by the huddled masses, as many can't even cope with HTML, but they don't need to use it: what we *do* require/demand are tools for the Semantic Web, that can automatically browse/render/edit this kind of stuff: so we wont have to see all of the coding. We need a Mosaic for the SW. Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://infomesh.net/swdemo/#demo http://www.mysterylights.com/sbp/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF] "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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