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On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:42, Jens Jakob Andersen, PDI wrote: > Hi > > I am wondering (writing on a seminar) whether XHTML will take off, or it will > stay the IPv6 of the web? > > I can see that with the billions of HTML pages out there, where will the > usage of XHTML come from, and why should anyone go that way? Until and unless XHTML does more interesting things than HTML 4, I don't think it's going to go anywhere. Web developers can't seem to get past the "why" question, and the W3C's seemingly obsessive fascination with validation and constraints is less than compelling to designers who have to explain to their clients why XHTML is worth the extra work. (Microsoft Internet Explorer still doesn't seem to have noticed the XHTML namespace, which doesn't help matters, and tool support in general has been slow in coming.) I've written a (weak-selling) book on XHTML and run the XHTML-L mailing list. I sincerely wish XHTML would take off, if only to give Web developers a firm starting point from which to explore XML. XML tools and XHTML feel like a natural combination to me, but I see little real takeoff. SVG seems to be having more of an impact, at least from what I've seen and heard at conferences. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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