Re: Strict DTD a new twist

I don't see why they should.  Perhaps I am taking for granted my own
conviction that web sites grow and evolve or fade away...:).  I don't see a
mad rush to rebuild old sites in XML, but rather a gradual transition.  Two
years ago I was writing in 3.2....today I push for XHTML 1.0T.  Next year I
may be moving toward XML for some new projects. Meanwhile, those existing
clients who wish new work done on their old sites are getting the new work
done according to my current standards and so their site is evolving toward
XHTML compliancy.

If a site has the budget and the motivation to move to and XML base more
rapidly, I am sure it will.  If not, then it will simply happen in time as a
natural course of development, I think...

D


----- Original Message -----
From: "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>


At 09:51 AM 1/7/01 -0500, Darrell King wrote:
>The data a site presents...the informational content...can be stored in a
>markup such as XML that allows it to be presented one way for a platform
>such as a browser, in another format for a cell phone and yet another for a
>text-to-speech application.  This is a powerful tool for us...

You hit the nail right on the proverbial head Darell.

The question is . . .

What about the 70 zillion web pages out there now written in HTML?
To my knowledge, there is all of about *one* XML compatible browser on the
market - and it is not NN or MSIE. I guess that is not really a question.
But this is . .

Do we foresee everyone on earth rewriting their pages and deleting their NN
and MSIE in the near future?

That is what got me to thinking about this situation. The only thing
scarier is the thought of a XML WYSIWYG editor . . .
Aaaaaaaaaggggrrrrrhhhhhhhh.

:-)
Fuzzy.

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