i read jon's posts. i just don't reply to them. after having read jon's posts for too many years now, i know what they're gonna say before i read them, but i read them anyway. i know what he's gonna say so well by now i could write his posts for him. he's been on the same merry-go-round for a long time. after a while, i got dizzy. it's pretty easy for me to push his buttons. i switched from an [em] tag to an [i] tag just because i knew that would irritate him. :+) *** joey said:
He seems to flirt with being a useful person, but retreats from it whenever it gets close to fruition.
well, i've been toying with y'all for some time now, because i wanted to see just how long you would continue to assert that what i'm doing is "impossible". even though some of you seem to be inexhaustible, i've become bored with that now, so i've decided to furnish the pudding which contains the proof inside it. i've also been waiting for you to waste some of your valuable time in the futile task of doing x.m.l. markup, but i guess you are just too smart to fall for that trap. fortunately, so are the people you tried to persuade to do that markup for you, which is why none of it is done.
Most of us do not believe that a plain text file can convey the level of meta-data detail and accuracy available using heavier forms of markup, so we see "Plain text as primary format" as undesirable.
and "most of you" are just plain flat out wrong. you might be technically right, in that heavy markup _might_ do "more". but that's fairly irrelevant, since zen markup language can do "all that is necessary"... and although you and i might argue about what is "necessary", the end-user -- who ultimately has to _pay_ for the heavy markup you want to require -- has no question about that being a bad investment.
As it stands, I don't currently see this as a plausible reality.
you will learn. or be left behind. it's your choice... :+) -bowerbird