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                            He just doesn't get it

In addition to Dave Winer [1] complaining about permalinks [2] on CamWorld,
[3] Dave also complains about the design [4] of CamWorld. This is funny,
given that Dave's software still uses HTML tables [5] for rendering. From
reading, it seems that it's quite difficult to design your own templates for
his software, in case you want to use something other than HTML (HyperText
Markup Language) tables (like, oh, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)) and Dave
just doesn't get [6] why anyone would want to use anything other than tables
for layout, which is funny because he's been pushing for this really funky
way [7] to do RPC (Remote Procedure Call) when the old ways (oh, like CGI
(Common Gateway Interface)) work just as well (*cough* *cough*).

I guess he can't see the trees for the forest in the way.

[1] http://www.scripting.com/dwiner/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/02/13.1
[3] http://www.camworld.org/
[4] http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/02/12#le4674e474d473132a28becd906a93d74
[5] http://www.camworld.com/journal/2002/02/#10
[6] http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/02/13#areTablesReallyEvil
[7] http://davenet.userland.com/1998/07/14/xmlRpcForNewbies

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