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On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 17:52, Mike Champion wrote:
> Well, I had a similar reaction the first time I read the
> presentation. Then I turned it around: If it weren't for
> HTML and XML, no one (outside of our tiny little world
> circa 1996) would argue that SGML "mattered."
Heh. I was a HyperCard guy who thought markup was an insanely complex
hassle. The HyTime stuff I'd read while searching generally for
hypermedia looked downright catastrophic, and I thought for about a year
that HTML would go absolutely nowhere - markup just seemed insanely
grotesque.
Then I learned a little better... but still don't go near SGML per se.
And my hypermedia side is saddened but can't help agreeing with Bob
DuCharme's piece at:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/13/xlink.html
As much as I'd like to, I have a really hard time saying XLink matters
right now. Kind of funny given my initial reaction to markup for
hypermedia and my eventual conversion. Oh well.
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Simon St.Laurent
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