- From: scott lewis <sfl@scotfl.ca>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:36:47 -0600
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Cc: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 1 Oct 2007, at 2331, Robert Burns wrote: > > On Oct 1, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:36:37 +0200, Richard Schwerdtfeger >> <schwer@us.ibm.com> wrote: >>> Thanks. The tricky thing is that XHTML 1.x modularization also >>> uses the >>> same http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace. So, when we introuce >>> aria- >>> properties for xhtml serialization they also show up there. So, >>> there is >>> serialization for html and then the xhtml modularization work . >>> How is that coordinated? >> >> Seems like an issue for W3C management to solve. (Personally I've >> always wondered why the HTML WG did not automatically inherit all >> documents that dealt with the XHTML namespace, but so be it.) This >> issue was raised before when it became evident that the XHTML2 WG >> might be using the XHTML namespace for XHTML 2.0, but no decision >> has been made as far as I can tell. As far as most browser vendors >> are concerned this is all highly theoretical though last time I >> checked as none of them has any intentions of implementing XHTML 2.0. >> >> (I think the XHTML Modularization is not for implementors, but for >> specification writers, although this is not entirely clear to me. >> Another thing is that it builds on top of HTML 4.01, which is >> being revised by the HTML WG.) > > I don't think any of us know the intentions of any of the browser > vendors and I'm not sure its relevant to the discussion. For the > proprietary vendors, most of them have policies that they will not > make forward looking pronouncements about products. For the open > source projects, they're much too de-centered to determine what > will happen. You may have knowledge about Opera, though I suspect > you may have even been required to sign an NDA for Opera as well. http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/ FAQ#What_is_the_WHATWG_and_why_did_it_form.3F http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0429.html Mozilla, Apple, and Opera publicly rejected the W3C's XHTML2 in favour of WHATWG's HTML5 some time ago. hth, scott.
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