Posted by Ed Jensen on 11/06/07 02:33

dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> If untrained people are allowed to build and/or maintain complex
> things, and the inevitable happens, then it may not be simply
> because their tools are "wrong" but because the nature of the
> whole practice is very complicated and unregulated. It may simply
> be very hard to build good simple tools that everyone can use to
> do nearly everything they want to do. All sorts of things can
> stand in the way of this. In the case of website building,
> browser manufacturers adherence to a common standard would make
> things incredibly better. Even wsiwig tool makers would then be
> able to fashion things that worked well.

Gazing into my crystal ball, I'm going to guess a certain large
software company will ensure "adherence to a common standard" will
never happen, and will instead eventually push a different technology
(conveniently enough, invented by them) instead.

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