Enterprise IT
XML: An API for Every Web Site
There is a lot of interest in, and even more confusion over, XML--what it is and how to prepare for it. Is XML a standard? A new way to format Web pages? Yet another language to code? None of the above? The answer to each of these questions is "sort of." To boil down the concept to one sentence, XML is like an API for potentially every Web site.
ReadGetting Real About Real-Time Video
Skepticism, like twilight, is a gradual process. Just as twilight slowly obscures the details of the landscape, so too skepticism creeps up on us and extinguishes alternatives, reducing our visibility until the only thing apparent is our immediate situation-the status quo. For that reason, we hold on to our optimism and reserve criticism, in general, for what it would take to bring technology into the mainstream. Windows95 roll-out hype? We were charmed. OS/2 Warp Connect? That's lovely. Unix on the desktop? If only. Copeland? Can't wait. Real-time video on demand across the Net to the home? Now, wait just a minute, there's only so much we can grin and bear.
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