- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 21:14:35 +1000
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- CC: www-html@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
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. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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