Browsers are powerful tools in the hands of the user/viewer, but
authors still need to be able to:
1) write clearly and concisely
2) create clean, fast graphics, or employ a graphic artist
3) program, employ a programmer, or buy and learn to use a
server tool which allow the creation of dynamic documents
4) do their own sysadmin or pay someone to do it for them
5) and a half a dozen other skills to keep a web site going
Just because you have a powerful browser, doesn't mean you can
ignore the other skills.
<i>&gt;</i>
<i>&gt; Java may well become the hidden operating system of the Net - so long as</i>
<i>&gt; page authors don't have to know how to use it.</i>
<i>&gt; Which would you prefer? Learning C++ and java for two years in order</i>
<i>&gt; to be able to write an applet that scrolls text, or just using</i>
<i>&gt; Microsoft's &lt;marquee&gt; tag?</i>
Two points here
1) If I want to include a small spread sheet on my page, will I
have to wait for Lotus ne. IBM to design and build the
&lt;lotus&gt;&lt;/lotus&gt; tag?
2) Why do you want to know about the &lt;marquee&gt; tag? Just
drop and drag with the latest authoring tool and it will be
done for you. (not!)
<i>&gt; Naturally, you can download somebody else's applet. But it's still a</i>
<i>&gt; lot easier - and looks better, and operates more cleanly - to use the</i>
<i>&gt; &lt;marquee&gt; tag.</i>
<i>&gt; Bottom line: a browser is a tool for delivering sophisticated design</i>
<i>&gt; tools into the hands of artists and authors; the easier it is to use,</i>
<i>&gt; and the more flexibility and bells and whistles it has, the more</i>
<i>&gt; popular it will be.</i>
<i>&gt; You would have thought that Netscape wouldn't have forgotten this;</i>
<i>&gt; but it looks like they have.</i>
<i>&gt;</i>
The bottom line is as Alice said:
"It's a fast land, you have to run just to stay in one place"
and if you want to keep up with where the web is going, you or your
team will need to have many skills to "just author" a web page.
regards
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