- From: Craig Francis <craig@synergycms.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:10:22 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
On 21 Jun 2007, at 11:52, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On Jun 21, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote: >> It really seems that with regard to XHTML name and XHTML namespace >> both >> WG are not willing to agree on some compromise. Even when there are >> approaches that IMHO should satisfy both groups (for example using >> XHTML1.5 for XML serialization of HTML5, > > I think XHTML1.5 would be an OK name and I don't think the HTML WG > as a whole would object. But the XHTML2 WG stated that they don't > want the XML serialization of HTML5 to use "XHTML" in the name at > all. I don't think that is a reasonable request. On 22 Jun 2007, at 03:26, Ben Boyle wrote: > There ya go, just call it "xHTML" with a little x. > Personally I think W3C need to decide if HTML and XHTML are the > same language, or represent a variant/fork. The names and version > numbers should reflect this. Maybe it really would best to do away > with "XHTML" anything and just use HTML5 (and it can be HTML or XML > syntax). Could we not use a different name for the XML version of HTML5? perhaps: HTML-XML5 This is using the same theory behind naming FTPS and SFTP, where both are two different systems. Craig
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