Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web Internet Business Services
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'It's not ready':
No commercial quality XML browsers are yet available, and it may be some time before any emerge.
'It may never happen':
Some powerful software houses may see it as to their advantage to undermine the standardisation process.
'What we've got is good enough':
For many organisations, the present capabilities of HTML as enhanced with applets and various proprietary multimedia plug-ins will continue to fulfill their needs for some time to come.

 


Author: Simon Brooke

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