Re: XML & Technical Writers..

[Mary McWilliams Johnson <mary -at- SUPERCONNECT -dot- COM>]

Here's why I can't get very excited about XML:

                        "After months and months of press-release hype and
                         stories about browser wars, source-code giveaways,
                         and religious conversions (not to mention the fiercely
                         heated, long, boring, tedious, stupid debates in
                         certain newsgroups), what have you gotten out of
                         Microsoft's and Netscape's 4.0 browser releases? 

                         A 40-MB monster sitting on your hard drive? Or
                         exciting, dynamic content that pushes the medium
                         and does things that you've never seen before?
                         Aside from some big sites that have the resources to
                         produce 4.0-specific content (and a few other
                         valiant efforts to explore this new space), dynamic
                         HTML really hasn't taken off across the Net. "

That's a quote from an article on the WebMonkey site:
        http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/98/10/index0a.html?tw=dynamic_html

I think I'll wait a bit before tacking this "monster."

Cordially,

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                                 Mary McWilliams Johnson
                               McJohnson Communications
                                  Documentation Specialist
                Web Site Design, Development and Graphics
                                  www.superconnect.com
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