[Openstreetmap] SVG, JavaScript, DOM, AJAX and web mapping

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:24:09PM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> * @ 05/07/05 07:57:53 PM richard at systemeD.net wrote:
> > The user opens a page containing an SWF client (non-dynamic) which 
> > sends the HTTP request for data in the new grid square, as per above. A 
> > 'responder' script on the server sends back the data (in query string 
> > format, not XML... my feelings on XML are roughly equivalent to 
> > http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/sucks/trainwreck.html ).
> I'm no fan of XML, but RSS and whatever perls problems are, arn't XMLs
> problems.

No, XML's problems lie elsewhere.  I have ranted about them previously
in another place:

http://drhyde.hates-software.com/2004/01/09/62309985.html
http://drhyde.hates-software.com/2004/09/29/4998d8cf.html

Summary: XML is broken as designed

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