Re: Action item on syntax-based interoperability

On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 05:00  PM, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> [Dare Obasanjo] HTML is the primary language of the Web, not XML. How 
> does your position on syntax based interoperability take into account 
> data model based technologies web technologies that compliment HTML 
> like CSS & DOM?

CSS feels web-centric to me because it embodies an importance virtue in 
resource representations, the separation (so far as reasonable) between 
content and presentation; important in networked information systems 
because you can intrinsically never know who is processing your 
representation, and for what.  The DOM, while it has an important role 
in the world, gives me the impression that it could exist happily 
entirely outside the Web frame of reference.  But we're getting into 
anecdotal evidence here.  -Tim

Cheers, Tim Bray  http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/

Received on Friday, 24 October 2003 23:40:07 UTC