- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:03:06 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, w3c-css-wg@w3.org
At 8:12 PM -0700 8/16/02, Tantek Çelik wrote: >So you're saying that instead of encouraging better practices on the web, we >should introduce/legitimize more complicated ways of encouraging current >poor practices? No, I'm saying that encouraging better use of HTML is a waste of time. The battle's lost. XHTML 1.0 has achieved no significant traction. XHTML 2.0 will probably do worse. If you want semantically tagged information, jump to pure XML; but accept that HTML is today and probably always will be a layout language. What the W3C says about HTML has little effect on what web sites and designers do. The language of HTML is defined by the tools, not by the specs. If XHTML ever achieves any significant adoption, it will not be on the Web. It will be in domains that are not already colonized by HTML. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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