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RE: What is XHTML 2.0 for?

• To: 'Mike Champion' <mc@x...>, Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: What is XHTML 2.0 for?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:31:05 -0600

There is a chicken and egg problem.  Until someone builds 
that "universal, XML-native, SVG/XForms/etc.-aware browser platform"
and proves **performance**, implementability, ease of applicability, 
authorability, usability and so on, then puts it in enough development 
environments, the small but smart dedicated clients have 
the road.  The tools to build these are already on the 
desktops and in the developer's toolkits.

I'm not sure what marginalization means in this context.  The 
compelling argument against the smart small clients is not that they do 
anything harmful to the web but that they require installation 
and setup.  N-tier thin clients can be delivered via an email 
message as long as everything they need to hook up on the server 
is already there.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...]


Hmmm ... There may not be an urgent need for the details of XHTML 2.0,
but there is a VERY urgent need to promote the vision of the universal,
XML-native, SVG/XForms/etc.-aware browser platform to counter the
trends back to proprietary fat client systems that some seem willing to 
accept.  I agree with Len (I think) that these are good options for 
industrial-strength vendors to have, but they can't be allowed to 
marginalize the Web as it is and could be.

Of course, the challenge is more to get implementations of what there
is than to standardize all the innovations coming from the browser
developers, but there still needs to be a strong XHTML activity to center 
this on.

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