Matt, > Joe, *what* have you been smoking? smoking? Nah.. i passed it along*** :)
>HTML has gotten the web where it is because it is the only game >in town. Not exactly.. there are some other technologies.. Again NOT supported by all browsers... So didnt get popular.. Same thing is going to happen to Flash/RIA.. HTML became popular cause there is standard (W3C).. so will XML and the beauty of it.. is.. You are NOT learning/coding IBM's/MSFT's XML/HTML.. YOU ARE LEARING/CODING HTML/XML just like Java.. its NOT SUN's Java or IBM's Java... Its Java. Do you think all browsers support JavaScript the same way? Man..leave alone that.. we have problems controlling fonts in different browsers...(Just basic stuff)... Inspite of all this...Flash/RIA, a proprietary technique is going to be a standard? Yea.. maybe.. if MM releases it to W3C and makes Flash open source. Hope all the other big players(IBM/MSFT/ORCL) and the W3C will be happy to play along with MM's invention.. yeah right!. Joe -------Original Message------- From: Matt Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03/07/03 01:42 AM To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: The New Macromedia Website > > Joe, *what* have you been smoking? HTML has gotten the web where it is because it is the only game in town. And standards??? W3C? There is only one thing that will drive market acceptance and that is market dominance; not a committee of any sort. Ever. Macromedia has gotten themselves installed on everybody's browser. Because of that, they are the standard. Because they've also got the mindshare at this point, they'll keep the lead. Unless of course they screw up somehow. And barring a Microsoft version of Flash (lets call it Flush) getting installed on every desktop as part of the next version of Windows. But either way, the process will be driven by market dynamics... Not a cabal of academics. -------------------------------------------- Matt Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. <a target=_blank href="http://mysecretbase.com";>http://mysecretbase.com</a> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Site Design and ColdFusion Developer Tools -------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
