On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:50 PM, austincheney <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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". > > Your response is either brilliant satire, or completely misses the point. I'll give ya the benefit of the doubt and assume the former :) _jason -- 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]
