Subject: Re: [xsl] browsers with XSL capabilities From: Peter Flynn <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:32:05 +0000 |
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Most content editors or writers I know use MS Word. Largely because their employers or funders ask for it, not realising there are any alternatives. It's a very forgiving interface, and it makes documents look pretty fairly fast, which is usually the only criterion that they are asked to apply. It doesn't require much in the way of skills to operate, and you don't need to know anything about documents or how they behave, or anything about structure or usability, so you can use people with a lower training level than with other systems. The fact that the document is not reusable outside a Word environment does not concern them, because Word and Windows will always be available. Cost is not a factor because most companies have plenty of spare cash for licenses, software upgrades, and hefty hidden conversion fees when someone wants to do something else with the text, like have it formatted and typeset professionally in Quark or Frame. The only people _not_ using Word are those who have a sneaking feeling that it's not quite as robust as some other systems, or those who can't afford it, or those who want to exert more control over the way documents are put together and reused, or those creating respositories that are being designed for very long term accessibility. In corporate content creation, you have a simple choice: you can use money to invest in software to cover the deficiencies of your writing/publishing ethos (perhaps even including some writers); or you can use money to invest in people (training) to cover the deficiencies of the software. While the former is cheaper than the latter, people will continue to use wordprocessors instead of structured text systems. ///Peter XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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