Subject: Re: A would-be user's first XSL experience (long) From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:15:22 -0500 |
Chuck Robey wrote: > > There is something to be learned here. Todd Fahrner, and *not* Paul > Prescod, represents the type of person publishing tools *should* be made > available to. This means making them useable, not putting in their > hands. There is a strong tendency amongst knowledgeable programmers, > when making tools, to ignore useablility, saying "it they are that > stupid, they shouldn't be allowed near the computer". I don't want to > seem to be putting (possibly false) words in Paul's mouth, but you have > to consider the tool's target audience. Exactly. James Clark has made a technology preview for people experimenting with XSL technology months before XSL becomes a standard. He implements the language while he designs it to check that it is usable. He releases his implementation so that people *willing to put in the effort* can experiment with XSL while waiting for the browser-integrated implementations. Criticizing its usability completely misses the point of the tool. Criticizing XSL's usability based on that tool strikes me as non-productive. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Silence," wrote Melville, "is the only Voice of God." The assertion, like its subject, cuts both ways, negating and affirming, implying both absence and presence, offering us a choice; it's a line that the Society of American Atheists could put on its letterhead and the Society of Friends could silently endorse while waiting to be moved by the spirit to speak. - Listening for Silence by Mark Slouka, Apr. 1999, Harper's XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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