[exprla-devel] RE: XPL Working Draft

[reid_spencer <ras...@re...>]

--- In xpl-dev@y..., Mark Wilson <mark_tracey@y...> wrote:

This email has 4 parts to it

1.  Working model
2.  Using XPL on the website
3.  XPlatipus as a product, XPL as a website
4.  Gestalt community vision


1.  Working model

Just before we get going on that TOC (table of
contents) could I suggest we model ourselves on the
successful opensource movement which created the
next-gen Netscape browser?

Specifically, I suggest everyone keen on helping
design the environment in which we will work and
communicate studies the design of these two websites:
http://www.mozilla.org/ (for the public)
http://www.mozillazine.org/ (for the public workers to
interact)

Let's talk about it, why reinvent the wheel?

2.  Using XPL on the website

And yes, I think WE MUST set the expectation that the
website will gradually move over the whole website to
XPL, from it's initial HTML/XML/XSL basis

3.  XPlatipus as a product, XPL as a website

Give me a bit of time and I will buy the URL for us. 
I don't think we need the 

4.  Gestalt community vision

The XPL websites and my enthusiasm for supporting this
(and other websites like VBXML.COM) with my own money
is this:  I am keen on building a community of
communities... to achieve a gestalt affect.  I want to
provide support services for communities on the web.

But the only gotcha is that I need all the websites in
the group to committ to using a common header file on
all pages... in this way no website is a dead-end.  So
people can move from VBXML to XSLTalk to
Dataframeworks to XPL and Xpipes and WorldOS etc...

I think this is a good time to discuss this with all
of you and to ensure that you understand that this
would be good for you as well as for other websites.

Even on VBXML.COM where I have sunk well over a year
and loads of money into VBXML and many people have
subwebs which promote them and their names and their
ideas to thousands of visitors each month... I still
have to remind people to use the header and footer.

Are you cool to use the header (and the footer is
primarily a disclaimer).

Cheers,
Mark.


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