Hello, allow me to highlight a posting from Ian "Hixie" Hickson - the WHAT WG spokesman - in response to Jim Ley who asks how dare you hijack HTML, doesn't it belong to the W3C?
Here we go: > Jim Ley wrote: > > So it is the intention of Web Forms 2.0 to extend the XHTML namespace, > not caring that the WHATWG do not have change control over that > namespace and specifically introducing incompatibilities with any future > XHTML specification the W3C may wish to introduce? Yes, pretty much. However, that is highly unlikely to be an issue since the HTML Working Group chairman has stated that XHTML2 is the way forward as far as the W3C is concerned (and XHTML2 has its own namespace). Note that there is nothing worse about extending XHTML1's namespace than there is over extending HTML4. The W3C could just as easily want to extend HTML4. And note that the way that UAs have implemented XHTML1 there is no real difference between the two -- all the HTML extensions such as <marquee> work just as well in XML documents using XHTML's namespace as in HTML document in UAs that support both. Similarly, DOM extensions such as the extremely popular "as used by GMail" object XMLHttpRequest polute the DOM namespace in the same way. Since the WHATWG project was formed out of the W3C's reluctance to extend the XHTML1, HTML4, and DOM namespaces in this way, it doesn't seem likely that any of this will cause a problem. Source: http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2004-June/000286.html Do you agree with Ian that the W3C doesn't care about HTML and that the WHAT WG is a better steward? Any comments? Any thoughts? - Gerald PS: Here's Jim's follow up: I am disgusted, and I am disgusted with Opera, Apples and Mozilla involvement in this deliberate subversion of internet standards, whilst namespaces were perhaps not the best idea in the first place, we have them now, and we should ensure that they work. ... I expected a much better argument from the WHATWG to have been agreed on, than "we don't care much about internet standards". ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
