[Sigia-l] The future of WWW...

[Dave]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:20:48 -0400, Dave Collins
<dcollins at phoenix-interactive.com> wrote:
> Here, more than with any technology in the past, users are also
> developers. I don't simply mean people can switch between two hats (I'm
> a user, no I'm a developer), I mean that users-AS-developers are users.

hmm? developer as user?

totally, the tools for developing end-user experiences need to be
sophisticated and create efficiencies. I mean this is what VB did
years before HTML was out there. Its important to note that economy is
an important issue in all this.

I think the though that the early advantages of HTML for developers
have waned in recent years mainly b/c HTML isn't really HTML anymore.
I mean how many of us really code ONLY in HTML. xHTML is pretty darn
complex to do right and when you throw in JavaScript, CSS, DOM, XML,
XSLt etc. into the mix, it is now becoming a full on development
environment that requires the same theoretical abilities as
programming Java, Python, PHP, etc.

I think we have really lost the economies of scale here, no?

- - dave