- From: Jon Wallis <cm1906@ccug.wlv.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:57:38 +0000
- To: Andrew n marshall <amarshal@usc.edu>, www-multimedia@w3.org
www-multimedia@w3.org, On 23 Nov 97, you wrote: > I think it is a reasonable assumption that the majority of content > developers have at least some design background, and their > expectations of their tools will reflect this background. With respect, this is a very dangerous and naive assumption. The very history of the web shows this. Originally HTML was aimed at people who wanted to *structure* information (i.e., use it properly). Then it got (ab)used by a far greater number of people who wanted layout/presentation control. If/when SMIL gets released/taken up by Netscape/MS, it will be probably be used by far more people without a design background than with one - just as HTML is used by far more people with no knowledge of SGML or document structuring than with. -- Jon Wallis Senior Lecturer in Computing School of Computing & I.T., University of Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB - UK Phone/Fax:+44 (0)1902 321481/321491 http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1906/ -My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer (and vice versa)-
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