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| dinotrac May 07, 2008 4:53 AM EDT |
I've always been kind of take it or leave it WRT OOXML. Didn't care if it lived or died. Now I think I'm glad it passed, if only to get ODF folks in a dander and defending their work. Lost in all the noise is a concession by Weir that Brown's suggestions would actually improve the ODF schema and make validation easier. That is what competition does. I wonder where HTML would be today if the browser-wars hadn't kicked it up a few very big notches? |
| Bob_Robertson May 07, 2008 7:30 AM EDT |
> I wonder where HTML would be today if the browser-wars hadn't kicked it up a few very big notches? Simple. Readable. Fewer layers. Less "feature bloat". That's not to say I don't agree with you. |
| dinotrac May 07, 2008 12:12 PM EDT |
Bob - Nobody ever said that competition necessarily produces the best solution, but it does mean wants/needs/gee whiz, ain't that cools get served up. And let us never forget that one man's feature bloat is another's won't do crap. |
| Bob_Robertson May 07, 2008 12:40 PM EDT |
> one man's feature bloat is another's won't do crap. Actually, I consider feature bloat to be "won't do" crap. :^) Specifically, what I meant was having to change how things are done every time Microsoft comes out with a new and "improved" set of extensions to HTML. |
| dinotrac May 07, 2008 3:01 PM EDT |
Bob - Be fair -- Netscape came out with a lot of new and improved extensions as well. |
| Bob_Robertson May 08, 2008 4:10 AM EDT |
> Be fair... What, is this a peer-reviewed journal now? Microsoft is causing Global Warming! Bill Gates is the reincarnation of Shiva! |
| dinotrac May 08, 2008 6:46 AM EDT |
Bob - >Microsoft is causing Global Warming! Bill Gates is the reincarnation of Shiva! Old news. More recently: Bill Gates impersonates Jason Castro on American Idol because songs are software too, and he wanted to sing some "really great software". After losing data to a glitch during "Mr. Tambourine, "Castro" gets the Blue Screen of Death and is re-booted homeward. |
| Bob_Robertson May 08, 2008 7:31 AM EDT |
> Jason Castro Isn't he president of Cuba now? |
| dinotrac May 08, 2008 9:29 AM EDT |
>Isn't he president of Cuba now? Well, now that he's off Idol... |
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