Alternatives to the W3C

[Dave Winer]

Ann Ann Ann, it's not for the convenience of the developer.

It's feature-driven by users. They keep asking the web to do things that
apps do, as Steven has been saying.

That's the world I live in. There's money in it, big big money. It's the
money that's driving us in this direction.

Now, you may not like money, that's your right, but my shareholders do,
that's why they ponied up the big bucks, and so am I.

So we go go go.

We spent *years* listening to the whining complaints of people who say Don't
go don't go.

Enough!!

These are not browser wars, Simon. Those were over a long time ago.

AOL owns Netscape and Time Warner.

XML? That's excellent if it makes it easier and more beautiful.

Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Navarro" <ann at webgeek.com>
To: "Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM" <steven.livingstone at scotent.co.uk>;
"'XML Dev'" <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 8:18 AM
Subject: RE: Alternatives to the W3C


> At 04:05 PM 1/20/00 +0000, Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM wrote:
> >I think you're missing the point. Are you a content developer or
application
> >developer? From your responses I'd say content (E-Commerce based sites
for
> >me are in the main content based sites where you can click "buy-me" - not
> >applications) where I agree your site should be built for multiple
browser
> >types.
> >
> >I develop weblications. I don't develop for the latest innovations just
> >because I want to be on the cutting edge. It is practical.
>
>
> No, I'm not missing the point.
>
> If you develop for the *convenience* of the developer, you're missing your
> own point -- serving your customers.
>
> Ann
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