Re: [xml-dev] lots of WS reading material

Clay Shirky wrote:
> 
>...
> > The question isn't whether you can read or write the format, but whether
> > you can *accept connections*. So this is an equally true statement:
> >
> > "With the Web, if you can read MIME/HTTP, you can write MIME/HTTP.
> 
> sure, but that's cheating. You're eliding the difference between MIME
> and HTTP, so you can erase the distinction between the browsers and
> servers we actually have.

You're cheating by using the word "browser" instead of "client". If
you're comparing the Web infrastructure to SOAP then you need to take
into account Web clients like FastTrack and KnowNow that are
bidirectional and SOAP/XML-RPC clients that are unidirectional (like the
.NET Framework) and Mozilla!

 Paul Prescod