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

[Dave Collins]

> 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. 


Many of those amateur users do. Or they can get shrink-wrapped tools for
JavaScript etc. for free. 

Point is, the Web is open, not so much because the technology is open
source, but because its lowest common denominator approach includes
every one. And that means, like Microsoft wants to do, we
'sophisticated' developers/architects - with all our ideas about how
things *should* be run - can't usurp the web for our own elitist
purposes either.

Dave (C)