Saturday  2002-08-17   Software

Separation of content and presentation

An XML guru comes clean: "Separating Content from Presentation: Easier Said Than Done". What is suprising about this admission is that it is even necessary at all. By some accident of history, "separation of content and presentation" has become a credo, a motto, a religion.

Let's remind ourselves that it is nothing but an abstraction, a tool for clear thinking and better solution.

Saturday  2002-08-17   World

Iraq: In all but name, the war's on

Marc Erikson reports "Iraq: In all but name, the war's on". If we count a decade of bombing runs as war, this is one of the longest wars US has fought - twelve years and counting from the day Kuwait fell 1990-08-02.