Posted by dorayme on 11/06/07 02:56

In article <13ivkjkh4a0ejcf@corp.supernews.com>,
Ed Jensen <ejensen@visi.com> wrote:

> 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.

Funny you should say that; on one of the main channels of my
crystal ball, I am getting that too. <g>

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dorayme

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