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The hot link of the day

January 31, 2003 by Michael Boyle

The hot link of the day

seems to be the link to David Heller’s article over at Boxes and Arrows: HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On. He writes, “Ultimately, I donft see a long term future for HTML as an application development solution. It is a misapplied tool that was never meant to be used for anything other than distributed publishing.” Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to be misinterpreting that as saying there’s no future for (X)HTML, period. It’s not. He’s talking about a much much narrower field than that: enterprise application development.

For those kinds of applications, and such applications alone, he’s right on the mark. In a more general sense, however, HTML is not dead at all – which I hope is precisely why Heller limited himself to a much narrower subject. The web grew in spite of enterprise application developers, not because of them. The web grew – and continues to thrive – because it required NO dev tools beyond Notepad or (in the day) TeachText. Anyone who forgets that (or never learned it) does so at their peril.

Tags: Software, Standards, Web Design

Intrigue! Drama! Suspense!

January 30, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Intrigue! Drama! Suspense!

Watch Jeffrey Zeldman redesign The Daily Report in real time!

Tags: Blogging

The pun may be

January 30, 2003 by Michael Boyle

The pun may be

the lowest form of humour, but nevertheless, there is an “award-winning pun” (as a friendly correspondent put it) in this New Yorker review of the Genius Stanley Coren’s The Pawprints of History. To wit: “Ever since, many psychologists and animal behaviorists, reluctant to be twice fooled, have followed Descartes in his refusal to attribute to animals any conscious intelligence whatever. Only recently have animal behaviorists realized that science, in heeding Cartesian dogma more than the demonstrable ingenuity of animals such as Clever Hans, had got its logic backward: it had put Descartes before the horse.”

When reading this passage, you must remember that denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. Puns are funny!

Tags: Media

Kurt Vonnegut,

January 30, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Kurt Vonnegut,

interviewed in In These Times: “I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup dfetat imaginable.”

Tags: International Affairs

Whoa:

January 30, 2003 by Michael Boyle

Whoa:

User Not Found. “Dealing with the death of online friends.”

Tags: Death, Internet

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