• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: Ari Krupnik <ari@c...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:33:23 -0400

Ari Krupnik wrote:

> Isn't that what killed the idea of XML as something you can directly
> display in a browser? That XML+CSS gave you everything HTML gave you
> except, you know, links? 

Not really. I think what killed that vision was poor browser support. 
Not that the lack of links wasn't a problem; just that we never really 
got far enough for it to become a practical issue. That may be starting 
to change.

I suspect the working group could have pulled off a really nice 80/20 
solution by simply defining an xml:href attribute and declaring victory. 
  HTML won over competing hypertext technologies in large part by making 
links much, much simpler. Sadly XML didn't really learn that lesson.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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