Re: XML strict v trans
by Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg(at)idyllmtn.com>
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At 04:50 PM 9/23/2000 , Tamara Abbey wrote:
>This is true, but in the US, what does the user want? Midnight shopping complete with pretty pictures? Remember, in the US, most of us web surfers were raised on commercials -- 30 or 60 second bits of fast moving information about some sugary cereal plus just a dash of violence as the cereal guy gets creamed in pursuit of that cereal.
A very good question, Tamara -- what _does_ the user want? I think
we need to make sure that we're not confusing what users of
_television_ want, though, with what users of the _web_ want. To
make that mistake would be like saying that we can tell what people
want from the medium of radio by observing how they read books.
I don't think any of us yet know what is going to be "what they want"
once the Web (or the Internet) is fully realized as a mass
communications medium. My plan is to provide a _multitude_ of
experiences so that the user can get the experience that best fits
how she wants to experience the Web. As an example, when designing
Edapta user experiences, we created a non-visual blind user interface,
a low vision aging user interface, and a mobility-impaired user
interface -- but we also created a "high tech visual overdrive
gutsy in-your-face" interface. Not everyone wants the Web the same
way, and it's not as simple as _just_ "turning down the volume" --
sometimes you have to turn it up!
>[XSLT mention]
>Ruh-row -- looks like I'm not done here yet!! XSLT? Is this list archived yet??
XSLT = Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformations. They're
really cool. I might have said this once or twice. :) If you buy
Molly Holzschlag's upcoming XHTML book, "Special Edition Using
XHTML", you'll find a chapter about XSLT written by me, but here's
the 50-words-or-less explanation:
XSLT is an XML-based language that describes a transformation
from one XML language to another. For example, if I store
my site content in "Kynn's Content Markup Language", I can
apply an XSLT style sheet (which you can think of as a
"transformation sheet" instead) to change that raw content
into XHTML, into WML (for WAP phones) or into any other XML-
based language.
Maybe a little more than 50 words, but you can see it in action on
my resume: http://kynn.com/resume/
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--Kynn
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