Re: Fwd: HTML5 and XHTML2 combined (a new approach)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
>
> If HTML4 had been modularized, HTML5 would have used HTML4's table 
> module, text module (b-i-span-strong..), metainformation module 
> (html-head-body-meta) etc.

We actually tried that (using XHTML Modularisation in Web Forms 2), but 
browser vendors indicated no interest whatsoever in using this, and in 
practice it was more of a hindrance than a help to the specification 
process. I agree with Benjamin's assessment in this e-mail:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2009Jan/0042.html

-- 
Ian Hickson               U+1047E                )\._.,--....,'``.    fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/       U+263A                /,   _.. \   _\  ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer.   `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'

Received on Thursday, 22 January 2009 22:00:10 UTC