Alternatives to the W3C

Tim Bray tbray at textuality.com
Mon Jan 17 17:46:54 GMT 2000


At 11:19 AM 1/17/00 -0600, Len Bullard wrote:
>The future is outside the web browser.

Nope.  The only category of application that has any hope of existence
outside of a browser are authoring apps, whether for docs or graphics.
99% of all real-world business apps amount to database retrieval and
update.  Why would you ever run one of those through anything but a 
browser?  -Tim

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