Cross-breeding XML in the Wild

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

This is what holds us down in some ways.  Go read the comments on Tim Bray's
blog (Flashier) www.tbray.org/ongoing.  I'm not fussing with anyone on this
one but it brings us to a topic of some interest to XMLers:  isn't the point
to be able to use the XML as WE see fit?

Scoble is right.

Those who say that a web site should only be forms or limited graphics miss
the fun.   Take an ASP.Net culture class and use it to generate personality
phrases for X3D blogBots.  The creation of site personalities asking and
responding to mundane forms input for mundane interactions could be great
fun.

It isn't bad web design.  It is entertaining web design.

Jakob Nielsen and the rest of the 'web must be simple' community miss out on
the fun of real-time interactive app building.  Why not cross-breed XML
technology such as the .NET culture object and an XML 3D library for
real-time bots? Hey, that's cheap and it rocks.  Why not enjoy it?
Different strokes for different folks as the oldsters say, and there are
platform wars but one of the big points for markup was to get beyond this
nonsense in the content and make whatever we frikkin' want to make.

Pick up your prize.  You Tube, Facebook, yadda yadda all get the crucial
point: the web can be fun.

D'oh.

len