Promises, promises. Despite the enormous enthusiasm XML has aroused among programmers and e-commerce shops, the technology has so far missed its original target, the World Wide Web. But all that may change very soon. Simon St. Laurent explains why XML is good for you... and how it will change the web as we know it.
In any given day I can find myself reading up on a new W3C proposal, fixing an issue with our tax return, coding an add-on for our product, writing a conference presentation, building a server, creating a video tutorial, and doing front end development for one of our sites. Without clients dictating my workload I’m in the enviable position of being able to choose where to focus my efforts. However, I can’t physically do everything.
“We’re at the cusp of understanding the ultimate value of web publishing platforms, particularly ones that work cross-domain.”–Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.
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