On 03/01/2010 03:08 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
> I guess that means we'll eventually be seeing updates of a wide
> variety of specs that see relatively little use. That's not all bad.
> In the case of XLink, though, it really highlighted for me that even a
> spec that utterly failed to build a community is still sort of somehow
> marching along.
>
If it fits a niche for a particular segment it will survive and
evolve. Just because it doesn't make mass adoption to where the common
programmer knows about it doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a success.
All to often we evaluate the success by how wide spread it is, not by
how well it may do its job when it's needed.
Dave
