- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:58:46 +1000
- To: www-html <www-html@w3.org>
Hi, Regarding Tim BL's announcement this morning [1] to charter a completely new HTML WG to focus on (X)HTML 5 and an XHTML2 WG to continue with XHTML 2.0, I'm just wondering how it can possibly work? Does this mean the 2 camps will diverge even further, leaving us with 2 separate and incompatible, yet competing (X)HTML standards? If that is the case, can I assume the previous statement [2] that XHTML 2 will be using the XHTML 1.x namespace will be rescinded, so that at least the 2 incompatible versions don't share the same namespace? Why did the W3C feel that the 2 camps couldn't find a way to work together towards their common goals, to produce 1 (X)HTML specification? Considering that the most of the good concepts from XHTML2 have already been incorporated into (X)HTML5 in one form or another, why was it felt that there is a need to continue on XHTML 2 as it currently stands? [1] http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166 [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2006JulSep/0137 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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