RE: Why not XHTML+RDF? was Re: Links are links

If you have to keep asking this question (can we sell it)
rather than considering the technical merits (does it 
do the job as well as it can be done), you are on the 
wrong list doing the wrong job.  Can HyTime be sold?  No.
Can Hytime be revived piecemeal?  Done deal as long 
as the web architects get to keep their genius grants.

The web architects, (from the TAG on down) behave like gazelles 
running from a grass fire in one field to a crouching 
tiger in another:  scared, run silly, and seldom having 
the luxury of grazing where they stand.  Somewhere in 
the future, a hunter will take the day.

Hytime was too early for the industry and too advanced 
for the web.  It stayed in committee too long and 
couldn't be implemented by a kid with a MAC.  Neither 
can 80% of what we now.  If you haven't noticed, 
the web spec time in committee is starting to behave like a 
Kate Bush record in the studio:  announcements of 
cheery progress but nothing finalized and on the shelves.

The web architects have become what they so publicly loathed.  

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:jonathan@openhealth.org]

No doubt. I wonder why Hytime never took off. Was it too complicated? Hard
to implement? Should we reconsider decisions made in 1992-1996 in light of
stuff available today? Yet even if we reconsider, can Hytime gain the
mindset of web folks c. 2002?

Received on Friday, 4 October 2002 10:24:46 UTC