Who?d?ve thought that the BLX standards war would hot up in quite the way that it has? GT?s 
1.0 schema has, until know, been the accepted standard, but AKMA has recently challenged this position and is fighting back with the newly updated 
schema. Add to that the fact that Shelley Powers has come out on the side of and, well, it?s a mess.
I have to make my stand at this juncture and say that a lot of work went into , and it?s just wrong, plain wrong, that people think they can come along and jump on the bandwagon and, with a few minor adjustments, claim they have ?overhauled? the standard. Changing a few tags here and there, tweaking the core and then adding 1 to the version number does not constitute an overhaul. It just means two incompatible standards that will result in a fragmentation of what could have been a coherant user base.
What are users to do? or ?
I say, stay with the original – it?s the only way to maintain the true essence of in the blogosphere.
From Neil Gaiman's blog, a tidbit too choice not to pass on in full:
Well, on the good side, I would appear to be the next President of the USA at Presidential Deathmatch 2004. On the downside, I have Lord Havelock Vetinari as my Vice-President, Terry Pratchett's Patrician. Which means that my main function as President of the USA would be to think I'm in charge, be a prime assassination target and the butt of the anger of the crowds, while my Vice-President actually runs the country, dictates foreign policy, and keeps me in office (and alive) as long as I'm useful to him…
I always had a soft spot for Vetinari – even though he's ruthless and has an astonishing grip on reality, usually around the throat. I suspect, however, that Gaiman wouldn't be so easily made the puppet President, being far too imaginative and enterprising for that, thus ensuring that his life would either very long and successful or very, very short and to the point. A very sharp point, I should imagine.
Still, I'd rather Gaiman and Vetinari than any of the current candidates.
/me sighs
From Neil Gaiman's blog, a tidbit too choice not to pass on in full:
Well, on the good side, I would appear to be the next President of the USA at Presidential Deathmatch 2004. On the downside, I have Lord Havelock Vetinari as my Vice-President, Terry Pratchett's Patrician. Which means that my main function as President of the USA would be to think I'm in charge, be a prime assassination target and the butt of the anger of the crowds, while my Vice-President actually runs the country, dictates foreign policy, and keeps me in office (and alive) as long as I'm useful to him…
I always had a soft spot for Vetinari – even though he's ruthless and has an astonishing grip on reality, usually around the throat. I suspect, however, that Gaiman wouldn't be so easily made the puppet President, being far too imaginative and enterprising for that, thus ensuring that his life would either very long and successful or very, very short and to the point. A very sharp point, I should imagine.
Still, I'd rather Gaiman and Vetinari than any of the current candidates.
/me sighs
Who’d?ve thought that the BLX standards war would hot up in quite the way that it has? GT’s 1.0 schema has, until know, been the accepted standard, but AKMA has recently challenged this position and is fighting back with the newly updated schema. Add to that the fact that Shelley Powers has come out on the side of and, well, it’s a mess.
I have to make my stand at this juncture and say that a lot of work went into , and it’s just wrong, plain wrong, that people think they can come along and jump on the bandwagon and, with a few minor adjustments, claim they have ?overhauled? the standard. Changing a few tags here and there, tweaking the core and then adding 1 to the version number does not constitute an overhaul. It just means two incompatible standards that will result in a fragmentation of what could have been a coherant user base.
What are users to do? or ?
I say, stay with the original – it’s the only way to maintain the true essence of in the blogosphere.
