Beyond the major announcements, WWW 10 had its share of surprising, controversial and innovative statements.
These
quotes should not be seen as a summary of the WWW10 conference, nor as statements with which we agree. They are just sentences that we have found
worth reporting and are listed by chronological order.
The charter of the XML
Protocols WG isn't to invent anything new.
XForms original
simplicity disappeared when we had to use XML Schema
XML data standards are
not really needed (data standards have always failed in the past). Standard
APIs are the real need.
Voice technologies are a
cheap biometric solution for user authentification.
The semantic web is the
latest evolution of memes
[memes are ideas that
propagate like DNA genes].
I have left the SQL
standard organizations because some of the features of SQL 89 have never been
implemented... The W3c process wouldn't allow this and XQuery wouldn't leave
the CR stage if there was not at least two implementations.
What about RDF databases
and query language? I have asked the RDF Core Working Group to show evidence
through use cases showing that all this couldn't be done with XML Schema and
XQuery.
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