the web as a database

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:29:52PM -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> 
>>Thank you very much, Taavi, for the link.
>>
>>I did not know that the thing exists.
>>
>>Anyway, there are always ways around to introduce them. W3C is a sitting 
>>duck. Waiting, talking with companies that may support them, 
>>negotiating, and all this b*ls**t. This can be done without waiting, 
>>rather by enforcing certain solutions by using them and making them popular.
>>
>>Indeed, the web would become entirely different once these ideas were used.
> 

Lennard, pessimisticaly:

> Well given people don't even seem able to write web pages that can be
> displayed in all browsers (ie using standard html and no junk
> extensions), whatever makes you think most web developers have enough
> clue to mark up their content with various meta information about what
> it is.  Not going to happen.  They are more worried about how it looks
> in IE, than about content or how that content can be accessed.

My mood is different.

Take into account who really introduces standards to the web. Users do 
that? Users just follow them.

There are big business needs behind the new technology. Their money will 
shape the world, not passiveness of most of web users. Once the business 
smells the money, things will become more and more popular. I am not 
talking about businesses of one-person companies.

Much to talk about...

zb.


> Lennart Sorensen
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