On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 12:03:16 -0400, "Simon St.Laurent" <> wrote:
>I gave a talk last week at Balisage <http://balisage.net> on John
>Ruskin's "The Nature of Gothic" and how it might transform markup (XML
>and beyond) practice. The talk and the paper compare and contrast
>Ruskin, William Morris, and Christopher Alexander's visions of how
>architecture should function with common SGML, XML, JSON, and Web practice.
>
>The value of markup is not at all that it gives us an opportunity to
>standardize vocabularies. That is, indeed, its curse.
>
>The value is that it lets us use shared tools to create our own kinds of
>conversations, using a textual foundation that lets humans touch the
>data. Savageness and changefulness may be difficult values to adopt in
>our vocabulary design-centric world, but they offer us perhaps our best
>chance to repent of a direction that leads inexorably to the machine.
Excellent paper, thank you! We're currently
working on a new ML for tech docs, uDoc, and
I've added excepts from your quotes of Ruskin,
Morris, and Alexander to the intro to the spec.
I do hope the ideas you presented can get the
recognition and mindshare that they obviously
deserve.
Highly recommended!
-- Jeremy H. Griffith <>
DITA2Go site: http://www.dita2go.com/
