- From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:37:00 +0000
- To: public-grddl-comments@w3.org
Greetings. I haven't seen a mention of WHATWG here, but it would seem to be relevant. For those that don't know (was I the last to hear?), WHATWG is the `Web Hypertext Application Technology working group', and is `a loose unofficial collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties who wish to develop new technologies designed to allow authors to write and deploy Applications over the World Wide Web.' It seems to include the Safari, Firefox and Opera folk, so is likely to be influential, and is it seems currently being implemented by those browsers. The relevant points about their HTML proposals are that they propose (i) that HTML is defined as a DOM rather than as syntax, and (ii) that HTML, as opposed to XHTML, be serialised in a form which is _not_ an application of SGML. In short, they're saying that HTML in future will not typically be well-formed XML, if they have anything to do with it, and there will be no browser pressure to make it so <http://blog.whatwg.org/faq/#parsing>. All the best, Norman -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Norman Gray / http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org / University of Leicester, UK
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