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That is a good argument SB. I agree that XML is likely to become the standard if for no other reason than the Gurus love it and they push the W3C.
I think you may find though that HTML being a code for the people may not have a great deal to do with the future.
I agree with what you are saying but consider the Microsoft Vision of the all in one home server.
Essentially Bill thinks it would be a good idea to extend the settop-box idea and make all the facilities of the PC available to the consumer from there.
If we look at windows and how difficult it has become to customise it over the past 6 years and then look at who controls the way the majority of us see the web.
Or if we look at how games are made now compared to 10 years ago.
The pattern is that of home hobbies becoming corporate beasts.
Broadband and the mass consumer demand of stable exciting broadband content mean there is a good chance that to set up your own website will become an expensive business as the concept of having a unique personal computer becomes more and more obselete. Do not forget that whilst the majority of web-users today are tech heads, that when the whole world is on-line we will be in the minority and there is a good chance that web content is largley viewd on TV sets through Bills Boxes.
The interaction will die out as businesses go where the markets are and Personal Computing and therefore Home Page making becomes a niche and therefore expensive industry.
The Death Of The PC was heralded this year at one of the biggest home computer conventions in the US. Not just by Microsoft but by IBM Sunsoft (netscape) and a few other big cheeses in the industry.
Watch this space but I predict (and I hope I am wrong) that in the near future you WILL need a small team of experts and a big budget to produce anything on the web. Just like games are mad now.
Remember the days when you could program a whole game with graphics in just a few hours at home on your spectrums?
So liesin the fututre of the web.
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