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Re: What are the arguments *for* XHTML 2.0?

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• Subject: Re: What are the arguments *for* XHTML 2.0?
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 22 Nov 2002 22:55:11 +0100
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On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 22:45, Paul Prescod wrote:
> Mike Champion wrote:
> 
> >
> > For what it's worth, I see the benefit of XHTML 2 as precisely that it
> > *is* yet another standard.  The result of shunning
> > "yet another standard" IMHO will be that some non-standard
> > "son of Flash" or "son of Blackbird" will predominate once HTML
> > is too old and tired to be worth the trouble.
> 
> Son of Flash or Son of Blackbird would have to have a compelling 
> business case for anyone to care about it. Microsoft could not make an 
> announcement that they are inventing a hypertext language for markup 
> (HTLM) and expect anyone to care. They would have to say that they were 
> inventing a remote gui language or a remote multimedia language or a ... 
> something exciting. 

Isn't it the case and/or purpose of their new XML office format combined
with XDocs and the other pieces of the puzzle which is being gradually
exposed these days?

A clean XML format for office documents could be displayed in any XML
browser with a simple CSS and/or XSLT stylesheet and the border between
these domains is becoming fuzzier everyday...

My 0.02 Euros,

Eric
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