Re: Cleaning House

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> I don't expect much to happen to HTML, no matter what XHTML or HTML 5 
> drafts (and maybe, after many years and struggles, even candidate 
> recommendations) will be issued. The idea of creating something that is 
> "compatible" with existing bulk of markup _and_ with errors and 
> idiosyncracies of browsers, yet extends HTML in essential ways, sounds 
> remarkably unrealistic.

It's not unrealistic, it just requires a lot of hard work and 
dedication, which we have seen a lot of over the past 3 years in the WHATWG.

> I think it's time to consider something new that does carry all the 
> burdens of the past errors and flaws. Learning from the experience 
> rather than being bound by it, we could now design a markup language 
> suitable for the World Wide Web.

That sounds remarkably close to the approach the XHTML2 WG is taking, 
yet few people actually believe that will be successful.

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Lachlan Hunt
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