Re: Beyond GEDCOM

melsonr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Robert Melson) writes:
> Wes Groleau <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> > Robert Melson wrote:
> >> think applications like phpGedView, The Next Generation and, to
> > 
> > Much as I like both of those, I have to
> > agree with Dr. Leverich--they really don't
> > offer any major innovation.  They're just
> > improvements on the user interface of the
> > same basic thing.
> 
> I don't disagree.  I very much like pGV, myself, but
> am certainly aware that overall it's not really a
> ground breaking application.  Still, it does illustrate
> the point I was attempting to make - all the capability
> resides in/on the server, making it unnecessary for the
> local machine to install anything more forbidding than
> a browser.  This, I think, is where things are probably
> heading <waves hands> in genealogy as well as in other
> areas.

This is akin to saying that terrorists are well-financed and
fanatical so we might as well just let them win.