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Those of you watching from the parapets should be able to recognize what just happened here.
It's like sitting on the roof in the city and hearing a car crash a few blocks away. You don't have to be sitting on the curb watching to be able to tell what happened.
http://reddevnews.com/articles/2009/07/13/w3c-pulls-plug-on-xhtml-2.aspx
W3C Pulls Plug on XHTML 2
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has halted work on the second version of the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), and has instead redirected its energies to the next version, HTML 5.
"When the XHTML 2 Working Group charter expires as scheduled at the end of 2009, the charter will not be renewed. By doing so, and by increasing resources in the HTML Working Group, W3C hopes to accelerate the progress of HTML 5," states a W3C news bulletin
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Version 2 of XHTML is actually a complete rewrite of the markup language, Jones said. "Basically, the vision of XHTML 2 was to start over and fix all the mistakes with earlier versions of HTML," he said. "They were successful in [technical terms], but it never got market uptake. It never got native support in browsers."
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"...the vision of XHTML 2 was to start over and fix all the mistakes with earlier versions of HTML..."
You see, once the industry saw something done right the first time, they had to revisit all the stuff they say they would consider "obvious".
It wasn't all that obvious when you blind people felt up the elephant AFTER the Emily language patent application was made. Your consensus didn't come up with a proper dispensation of the novel concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML
And anyone who reads the Emily patent pending information knows Emily is the use of XML as a truly functional and transformative language intended for use with the MLE 7076521 native XML process but uniquely powerful just by itself.
Very interesting timing for the W3C to pack it up in attempting to do what Emily does and they go traipsing over to HTML to see if they can make HTML extensible enough to work around the Emily method.
If anyone would like to argue what I'm saying, please feel free to comment. Better bring your lunch.
Posted by Portuno Diamo
at 1:11 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, 15 July 2009 1:26 AM EDT