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eWeek: shockingly ignorant

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Maybe I'm a little bit biased, but there are some glaring errors in this eWeek article, a Q&A with no less a web star as Sir Tim Berners-Lee. They hear what he has to say, but obviously don 't understand, instead they just jot down his words. Here are two nice quotes:

When I wrote the browser, people were using documents with wizzywig editors, so I really assumed that what people were going to use for preparing content was wizzywig, or what you see is what you get.
So that's why I made it an editor and I was really surprised when on platforms which didn't have wizzywig editors, that people were prepared to go to the trouble of learning all the angle brackets and doing the html.



If you look at some of the things that people are doing with AJAX, they're very much data-driven applications. They're things like Google Maps and all the mash-ups built off of that. That will be based on data interactivity capabilities, and that's what the Symantec web is about, allowing people much more power to access data and combine it.



Maybe it's because Symantec is so close to their heart, being a big sponsor of the site and all...

It doesn't help that they don't mention Opera at all in the article on the future of the browser (somehow they manage to publish a couple of related and partially duplicating articles on browsers at the same time).

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haavard 26. December 2005, 01:28

Wow. Wyzziwyh and the "Symantec web", eh?

I also blogged about the other article from eWeek today:

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/show.dml/95542

Maybe we shouldn't feel bad for not being mentioned, because these articles are simply not very good, and the research seems to be close to non-existant :frown:

Anonymous 11. January 2006, 06:51

Arioch writes:

Just lost the whole msg :(
Is MS IE compatible with the site ?
Oooo, i wish next O9 preview would be soon :)

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