A milestone in XML

[Dave Winer]

I haven't answered this question because I don't know the answer. Who knows 
how anyone else thinks? Especially a big corporation that's just been 
acquired by an even bigger corporation? Anyway, from my POV, CDF is a dead 
horse. We did some work with it when it first came out, but it seemed 
fairly useless and never went anywhere that I could see. Beyond that, I 
have not got a clue what CDF was supposed to do that anyone wanted. RSS on 
the other hand is quite useful, and lots of people are getting on the RSS 
train, so of course we supported it enthusiastically. That's the big 
picture from where I sit. Dave


At 01:36 AM 5/14/99 , Matthew Sergeant (EML) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffrey Ricker [SMTP:ricker at xmls.com]
> >
> > Dave,
> > Why did Netscape feel it necessary to invent RSS rather than use CDF as
> > Microsoft, DataChannel, PointCast, etc. do?
> >
> >
>         Perhaps because CDF isn't XML?
>
>         http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/delivery/channel/cdf1/cdf1.asp
>         http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/delivery/cdf/reference/xml.asp
>
>         Matt.
>
>
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