- From: Peter Crowther <peter.crowther@networkinference.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:27:00 +0100
- To: "'Sandro Hawke'" <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> From: Sandro Hawke [mailto:sandro@w3.org] > > No, I think that is an exact mirror of the human condition, and > > inevitable in global forum. People talk different languages, but > > manage to get by using patchy translations. > > Well, no. Actually, pretty much everybody on the web speaks > the same IP, TCP, HTTP, and HTML. It's amazing. Sandro, have you tried writing HTML that does anything more than basic stuff *and* displays properly on lynx, Opera, Netscape 4, Mozilla, IE4 and IE6? If you had, I think you'd agree that HTML has at least dialects, if not creoles with other languages. And even an old, small and well-debugged standard like TCP has dialects, notably the Windows NT 4.0 dialect which is probably closer to Glaswegian than to any more internationally known language... Different people seem to want different cores for the semantic web before the languages spread out to form distinct dialects. We have the advantage of being in on this relatively early in the process, and we may (*may*) be able to hold it together more effectively than in the early days of HTML development so that the dialects are at least closer together. Certainly I'd much rather see Sandro's 'amazing' Web, given the choice, than one that uses patchy translations with all the loss of nuances of information that implies. - Peter -- Peter Crowther, Chief Architect, Network Inference Limited
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