Web works? (Was: Diverse Tools (was HTML editors))

[Jim Shaeffer <jims -at- spsi -dot- com>]

Simon North wrote (brutally extracted from context): 

the web works? my turn for a counter challenge ... 
c'mon, anything that relies on such a puerile, 
braindead mechanism as physically embedding hyperlink 
source points and target in documents is so patently 
worthless that any attempt to call it 'working' is frankly 
laughable. 
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My Rant: 
The Web works precisely because it was built with braindead 
kiddy toys. 
The value of the Web has nothing to do with what elitist 
programmers can bring to it. The value is that any idiot 
can create a Web page or send an e-mail (like this one). 
The value of a network like the Web depends on the number 
of connections available, not the quality of the nodes nor 
any theory about the best way to navigate them.  
I cringe when anybody promotes XML or some other technology 
as the "new language of the Web." If HTML had not been 
mindlessly simple, the World Wide Web would still be a haven 
for a limited number of geeks and not the lovely graveyard 
of high-tech dotcoms that it is today. 
End Rant

Thank you for listening, 
Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)


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