On Jun 1, 5:26 pm, Andrew Dodson <[email protected]> wrote: > I was looking athttp://www.html11.org/ > > <http://www.html11.org/>And wondered if the <religion> element will expose a > save() method with a callback handler.
I was just looking at HTML11, and am sorely disappointed. This appears to entirely misunderstand extensibility just like Microformats, the structure tags introduced in HTML5, and other such technologies. When vocabulary crosses the line from meta-data to command syntax a collision between semantics and extension becomes inherent by which structure is command limited rather than context defined. Valid XML technologies do suffer from this confusion, which is why they are more difficult to understand and yet significantly more powerful. If HTML11 wishes to have any chance of becoming an actual XML technology it will be rewritten as a adjective based taxonomy applied via namespace and supplying an ontology module for linking adjective based data fragments. Otherwise it is merely the next Microformats. Like Microformats it may garner some attention for a time and somebody may even write a book about it, but in the end it will come down to a specific few browser plugins or mobile apps and will otherwise die quietly or fail to implement. >From http://www.html11.org/about.html - "The mission with HTML11 is to lead the world to its full potential without Flash." Competing with Flash has absolutely nothing to do the mission statement "to fulfill the promise of XML". -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
