Subject: Re: unsolicited advice...... From: Andersen Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 07:09:15 GMT
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Subject: Re: unsolicited advice...... From: Andersen Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 07:09:15 GMT
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At 03:08 PM 8/29/96 -0800, Mark Loundy wrote:
>The whole issue of "doing HTML coding" is in the process of rapidly
>disappearing. The nuts and bolts of appearance and interface are about to
>be hidden behind a wall of sophisticated applications. Within a year,
>virtually nobody in a production environment will be doing HTML coding by
>hand.
>Just as there are no more telegraphers at the wire services, HTML coders
>are in their final months of their brief existance.

Unless I'm mistaken, Mark, you've been banging this drum for *some* time
now, however I've yet to see one WYSIWYG editor come close to keeping up
with developments vis a vis HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, etc. etc.  I
speculate that there will always be room for both manual coding and WYSISYG
(if we can call it that), until HTML disappears altogether--which it very
well may (but I don't presume to know what will replace it). However, that
said, HTML is rapidly becoming a smaller and smaller part of online
publishing as the net evolves from a world-wide publishing network into a
world-wide operating system.
Rick




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andersen@canuck.com

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