- From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 01:48:54 -0400
- To: Paul Prescod <papresco@technologist.com>, jptxs <jptxs@idt.net>
- Cc: Scott Matthewman <scottm@danielson.co.uk>, IDSamson@beauty.hsrc.ac.za, www-html@w3.org, Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com>
At 4:11 PM -0000 7/9/97, Paul Prescod wrote: >Anyhow, it isn't clear yet that we need an HTML 5.0. If everything that >HTML does becomes available from XML then people can just use HTML >4.0-like DTDs until they reach their limits at which point they can >extend them in whatever way they feel appropriate. The "browser feature >wars" can shift from the markup to stylesheets and "scripting >specifications". >Netscape bought into XML when they "realized" that it wasn't a >competitor to HTML, but they didn't make clear what would be the problem >if it made HTML-as-we-know-it (i.e. non-eXtensible HTML) obsolete. I've been hearing a lot about XML, but I don't know a lot about it. Can anyone point me to some good resources? -------------------------------------------------------- [ Jordan Reiter ] [ mailto:jreiter@mail.slc.edu ] [ "You can't just say, 'I don't want to get involved.' ] [ The universe got you involved." --Hal Lipset, P.I. ] --------------------------------------------------------
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