- From: Larry Bouthillier <lbouthillier@hbs.edu>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:21:56 -0400
- To: www-smil@w3.org
Hi, At 07:21 PM 6/21/98 +0900, Avaro Olivier wrote: >1. Once the standard really take off and people make serious content, >how many will really use the text source ? It seems to me that yes, >having a text format is an advantage, but probably not as much as there >seems to be an agreement on this list. People will use SMIL editors and >will want to forget about the text encoding format as soon as possible. >Comments ? I'm not sure that this is true. While many people do use HMTL editors, most professionals I know still prefer to program web pages using a good code editor most of the time; particularly when the hand-coded HTML ends up in part of a dynamically created website engine.. HTML tools have their place and can sometimes be easier, but editing by hand is still very widespread and important. A huge part of the attraction of SMIL, for me, is the ability to edit by simply changing a few characters using an editor, rather than having to open up some huge, monolithic native app and find the right icon to drag or the right dialog to open. Larry Larry Bouthillier -- larryb@hbs.edu Head of Multimedia Production Harvard Business School (617)495-6393
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