- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:53 -0400
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
Roy T. Fielding scripsit: > All of the hosting services that I have used over the past eight years I know Aunt Tillies, Aunt Tillies are friends of mine, and Roy, you're no Aunt Tillie. > It is my experience that whenever anyone here says just about anything > negative about configuring a web server, the only thing they have really > lacked is the fortitude to read the documentation on how to do it. The fact that something is possible doesn't make it not arcane and difficult, and even if the arcaneness and difficulty can be reduced, it remains a pain in the ass. The facts are that Aunt Tillie controls the content of her document (but not its format, as a general thing) and maybe the URL (though if she is using blogging software, usually not). There is not, and will not be, any way for Aunt Tillie to create a firm link between her document and anything she wants to say about the document, unless it so happens that the tools she is using let her add the information directly to the document. As Sir Peter Medawar said to the roomful of biologists who were debating the meaning of "life" (as opposed to the meaning of life), "I think we all know the difference between a live horse and a dead one, so let us cease to beat the latter." -- John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org SAXParserFactory [is] a hideous, evil monstrosity of a class that should be hung, shot, beheaded, drawn and quartered, burned at the stake, buried in unconsecrated ground, dug up, cremated, and the ashes tossed in the Tiber while the complete cast of Wicked sings "Ding dong, the witch is dead." --Elliotte Rusty Harold on xml-dev
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