Overheard at WWW10
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.
Other stories:
Re: Overheard at WWW10 (Eric van der Vlist - 07:03, 9 May 2001) Yes, I recon this is a risk.
This hasn't been the intention here and these quotes are nothing more than sentences heard during the conference that I have found surprising or instructive.
Furthermore, these quotes are neither related nor conflicting and I am not expecting readers to draw conclusions from them but rather hope they will find valuable to think about them. Re: Overheard at WWW10 (Marcus Carr - 23:24, 8 May 2001) I'm not a big fan of quotes - it's far too easy for them to be taken out of context. In most cases this is the objective, juxtapose two conflicting positions and allow the the reader to draw a conclusion. Re: Overheard at WWW10 (Marcus Carr - 23:23, 8 May 2001) I'm not a big fan of quotes - it's far too easy for them to be taken out of context. In most cases this is the objective, juxtapose two conflicting positions and allow the the reader to draw a conclusion. |