New Technologies?

XML/XSL is the future of webdesign as it stands right now. That is what I meant by my earlier comments.

XML/XSL is effective because it seperates style from content better than anything available.

So basically what you're saying for the future is how its source code is displayed? I'm not sure I agree with you there...

I agree with what the dreamer said near the top - all of these will be replaced by something way cool. XML is here to stay at least for a while, but I don't think CSS will be around much longer. Take a look at the direction of flash, if you use it. Although you can use CSS it seems pointless as it has built-in alternatives. But XML is a big integration with the newer versions.

As far as 100-gigabit ethernet, I agree it will be coming sooner than everybody thinks. Just remember back in the early 90s when everybody said "hey 100MB of hard drive space is waaaay big, you'll never fill that up".... Now they are making keychain drives bigger than that, which replace diskettes.

I think the dreamer side of me wants to see more integration of home electronics. Make the TV and computer and security system all the same device, and the like. I know it's possible already, but I want to see it en masse. Open source software has a tough time except with techies because of marketing - but as more people become educated, more people are switching to it.

That's all I got to say about that.

but, XML/XSL has been around years....why hasn't it overtaken css already (if it were going to)?

do you use it to design web pages in?

I heard I should learn XML around 6 years ago, but I didn't. And where would it have gotten me? Nowhere! The first problem with XML is that its an offspring of Microsoft.

i have learnt how to use it just for knowledge sake, but i have never ever used it in real-life apps and doubt i ever will.....it's one of those things that's best kept in the 'stuff-i-know-that-i-don't-need' bin

Whoaaaahhh!!! XML is not a MS tit-suckler. Bill didn't make it. And XML is around in a lot of places, sometimes when you don't know it. Yes, it's been around for almost 10 years, but how long did it take for Java to become accepted? It wasn't instantaneous. If it's not used, then why did Flash just integrate it and Oracle just made a big movement to involve XML not long ago? XML has good uses when used properly, such as B2B components where databases are different, and for use with mainframes. Personally, I've never had the need to implement something with XML, but two of my friends (who are programmers for other companies) use it in their apps. It's by no means a little add-on or anything.

I'm a programmer for an "other" company and have been for a few years... and i'd definitely put my money on css and good ol html in terms of web development. XML does have it's purpose, but it'll never replace the good ol fashioned hypertext markup language and css(present and future) for web design/development in my opinion.

It's unfortunate, then, if it isn't the successor to HTML, because XML has so much potential and seems like a natural transition. You don't even learn a new syntax! I know it may be a poor example, but flash has become a largely used web interface and barely needs html to function, so it's possible for html to be replaced. Couldn't you see the web going in that direction? Closer to the look of desktop apps? It would be a great thing for the web, and then I would be that much closer to having my dream of the web being 3d!!!! Mwahahaaha.

And by the way, gsv2com, your icon reminds me of the fable box. (which by the way is a good game if you have a spare afternoon to beat it)