Hi Marilyn This is far from a perfect world. Before we can have perfectly lovely xml documents, we need to make sure all of the resources delivering content are also delivering perfectly lovely xml. Or... a broken page.
Not everyone has the resources to put this together. So, it's good to have a more flexible option out there. Those that can use the better technology will have better sites and will be the stars of their high school reunions. Those of us stuck working with partner content that is questionable will still be in the corner sipping a diet-coke and eating way too many cookies. Ted www.tdrake.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marilyn Langfeld Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:46 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] [Please don't flame :)] HTML, XML what's the difference. On Feb 8, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Stephen Stagg wrote: Why do we need an HTML 5? Can't we dispose of HTML and just use styled XML in the future? It would be one helluva way to enforce standards, and we wouldn't have all this wrangling over exactly which element to use. _____ Here's a start: http://www.whatwg.org/ As well as I understand, there are dissenting voices about the development of the web: those who want to follow W3C's recommendations towards XHTML, those who want "The Semantic Web" based on XML, and those who want to extend HTML against the wishes of W3C. Plus those who don't want to change at all. I don't know much more than that, but I'm sure others on the list will fill in the blanks. Best regards, Marilyn Langfeld Langfeldesigns http://www.langfeldesigns.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
