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> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:08:45PM +1000, rjelliffe@allette.com.au wrote: >> (My own opinion is that this is all a side-effect of the W3C's intense >> desire to avoid anything like a long-term plan or a co-ordinated >> strategy. >> For example, what if 2000 the HTML group had decided that by 2010 HTML >> parsers should accept full XML, including qualified names? Liam Quinn wrote: > They (we) did exactly that - the problem is getting Web browsers and > site developers to follow... Oh: which HTML spec is this in? Or which TAG finding? If you are talking about XHTML: that is not what I am suggesting. XHTML is a variant dialect which excludes syntactical features not in XML, leaving HTML and XML unchanged. I am suggesting the reverse a medium-term behind-the-scenes reconciliation (perhaps not unification) of syntax and API. This kind of medium-term strategy is not odd in the field: for example, I know that MS put in forward-looking capabilities into their Office 2007 SP2 so that documents from Office 2010 will cause fewer problems. [The leadership and various committees in] W3C [if viewed as a notional single entity by metonymy using normal English formation--happy Michael?] has long moved from innovation to maintenance: but while they know this is a long-haul game, the TRs are relentlessly aimed at the current time. (This is an issue I have brought up before, concerning XML and unicode. Pre-announcement.) Other standards groups have the same issue, of course. > So it turns out that it's not that simple. I am sure it not simple, and don't envy you all! But it is the kind of thing we should be allowed to expect... Cheers Rick
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