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Not exactly, he was involved with (not an inventor of) a decedent technology of IBM's GML called SGML. A more fair attribution would be that he inventor a precu
by sfphotoarts 17y ago
Not exactly, he was involved with (not an inventor of) a decedent technology of IBM's GML called SGML. A more fair attribution would be that he inventor a precursor to AJAX.
- mbrubeck 17y agoI'm not sure what you're talking about. Yes, Tim Bray was involved in the development of SGML. But he's also the first-listed editor of the XML 1.0 specification.
- avibryant 17y agoExcuse me? Tim Bray and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen were the editors of the first XML specification, and their names have been on every edition since then. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ all the way back to http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114 .
- sfphotoarts 17y agoHistory is more than being a name listed on the web page... That was a turbulent time back in mid nineties with a lot of things going on. You'd have to have been around and involved back then to really know what happened. XML is a simplified subset of SGML, which as I stated was an invention of IBM. Moot these days I suppose. A horrendous 'technology' that has seen its day pass and be replaced by considerably improved markup languages.
- wglb 17y agoEr, you are off on this one. GML was invented by IBM. Tim was involved with SGML, wrote one of the first, if not the first, web crawler, and was a primary force and first listed author on the XML spec.
- mbrubeck 17y agoHere's Tim Bray's own history of the early days of the XML committee: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/02/10/XML-People