[Framers] I'm pretty sure the answer is structured content

[Alan Litchfield]

Reiterating what John and Robert said.

I too often see people who love their technology and see it as the 
solution to every problem. When all you have is a hammer, then 
everything looks like a nail.

There are very good reasons for unstructured content, that can just as 
easily be marked up into HTML or produced as pdf, help,... Just as there 
are very good reasons for using structured content. There are probably 
equal numbers of reasons for not using either.

Structured content, for them that have been doing this multiple decades, 
is not progress but a range of alternatives (GML has been around since 
the 1960's).

Alan


On 29/07/16 8:13 am, john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com wrote:
 > I disagree...you have the tool doing the driving instead of the
 > requirement.
 >
 > If I want interesting, I'll go white water rafting. It's mind-sets like
 > this that cause $10,000.00 projects to get budgeted at $100,00.00


On 29/07/16 8:42 am, john.x.posada at us.hsbc.com wrote:
> Structured is the right way to do if it is the right way to go...not
> because it is structured.
>
> John X Posada
> AVP | Global Risk Analytics | HSBC North America Holdings Inc
> 330 Madison Ave., NY NY
>
>  __________________________________________________


On 29/07/16 8:58 am, Robert Lauriston wrote:
 > Structured markup has been around longer than the web, PDFs, online
 > help, or personal computers.
 >
 > Since you make your living from structured content, I'm not going to
 > waste time explaining why it's not the best choice for every set of
 > requirements, and why people are still creating interesting and useful
 > unstructured tools.

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