[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RE: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?

• From: "Meadows, Philip" <Phil.Meadows@snapon.com>
• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "Dan Brickley" <danbri@d...>
• Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:20:34 +0100

I have no connection to this Q&A, but I've just come across it on the
web;

http://hsivonen.iki.fi/xhtml2-html5-q-and-a/

Phil Meadows

-----Original Message-----
From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk] 
Sent: 07 July 2009 13:15
To: Dan Brickley
Cc: Jonathan Robie; 'XML Developers List'
Subject: Re:  XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Dan Brickley writes:

> Although not as high-profile as a REC-track group, there is nothing to
> stop a group of like-minded W3C members single-handedly chartering an
> Incubator Group (XG, see http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ ) to try to
> progress the XHTML efforts. Perhaps - in part - by defining a recovery
> model for ill-formed XML markup?

The market will decide, but my take on what the XHTML users out there
like about XHTML _includes_ the strict error checking discipline it
imposes. . .

ht
- -- 
       Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
                         Half-time member of W3C Team
      10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131
650-4440
                Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk
                       URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/
[mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged
spam]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFKUzxVkjnJixAXWBoRAseoAJ4nbyEvju6tcR5t1j2kNb+aV0djXQCePDck
K3hoSmCVIM8kWGHzonlYeHU=
=7seS
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

_______________________________________________________________________

XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS
to support XML implementation and development. To minimize
spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting.

[Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/
Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org
subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org
List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php

• References:
  • XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@redhat.com>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
  • Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed?
    • From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)