|
|
Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 06/08/07 06:01
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Ed Seedhouse <eseedhouse@shaw.ca>
writing in news:m9qh63t4g8hbrofqal0l6di6vrobfdki9s@4ax.com:
>>The original OP has a valid concern that is, unfortunately, not easily
>>solvable at this time.
>
> Sorry, I disagree. Failing to take into account the nature of your
> medium is a sure way to produce lousy results in any medium. The web
is
> not paper and it isn't going to be paper, and if you insist on treating
> it like paper the result is going to be lousy web sites.
>
And I agree with you... the web is NOT paper, and the more people
continue to treat is as such, the longer it is going to take it to get to
its full potential.
I look forward to the day that:
1. My computer greets me in the morning with the day's schedule.
2. My refrigerator beeps because I have used to much butter that week (I
will never pay attention to that).
3. I get the news and the newest dirt read to me while I am driving (or
on the bus saving energy)
4. At work, my computer beeps to tell me that my lab results were just
fine, and I don't have to cut down on butter right now.
5. When I go to pick up my son, he tells me that he is in the state
championships in firefighting. He faught against a virtual blaze with
100 other students nationwide. The results were instantaneous, and he
still thinks he feels heat.
6. When I get home, I fire up my gas stove, put on my cast iron skillet
and cook a good meal with plenty of BUTTER.
The point of the above is, almost none of the above, except, of course,
number 6, is possible without computer talking to eachother. Without
good, semantic markup, that just isn't going to happen. It will be like:
"Hey, Joe, how about giving me the information on John Doe. I have all
the credentials available."
""
"Hey, Joe, are you there? Hey, can you speak or what?"
"Table tr td img src td tr table tr td ... "
"What kinda language is that?! Well, gotta go else where."
--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
Please respond to the group so others can share
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|