Well, there is a big difference between XHTML & HTML, so, I think both XHTML
2.0 and HTML 5 will be widely used.
Personally, I don't think that W3C will make something like 'standards
war'...
2007/1/27, Paul Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I was there at the WSG Sydney meeting last Thursday and was very
interested to hear Lachlan Hunt ("the tallest WSG member" according to Russ)
talking about the "Future of HTML". Here's where I have to admit I must have
been living under a stone for a while because I'd never heard of HTML 5
until that evening and talking to some of the folks after the meeting they
hadn't either. Lachlan's talk raised a lot of questions (which I wished I'd
asked at the meeting but felt like a noob at the time). I've done some
research online since but the archives of this list seem to have more
knowledgable people on the subject.
What I don't get is the HTML 5 (Web Applications 1.0) seems to be a
competing standard to those proposed by the W3C.
This<http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-futhtml1/>article for
example states: "The W3C promotes XHTML
2.0, based on the requirements of a broad vendor base -- not just desktop
browser makers. XHTML 2.0 is seen as a radical step. In contrast, the Web
Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) promotes a set of
incremental specifications, which evolve HTML to add the most immediately
required functionality into the browser. While no standards war has erupted
yet on the scale that brought HTML into the W3C in the first place, these
two organizations are not always in agreement as to where HTML should go".
Is this a fork in the specs road or a "standards war" in the making? It
would be great to bounce this off the WSG cogniscienti and help me (and
maybe others?) get a grasp of what is going on here.
Regards
PAUL ROSS
SkyRocket Design Co
http://www.skyrocket.com.au
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