Re: [xml-dev] Whitepapers and ScreenShots of Office 11 XML Features

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:

>>Except for, they're usually not.  Good docs are thin on the ground.
>>The virtue of the Web was that you could figure it out yourself anyhow
>>by doing a "view source".
> 
> Except most of those who viewed source *didn't* figure it out, and
> that lead to tag soup.

Are you serious?  The Web was only the most successful grass-roots mass 
technology roll-out in history.  People got it well enough to write web 
content and web software, both in huge quantities.  -Tim