• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: What are the arguments *for* XHTML 2.0?
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:34:51 -0800
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Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> >...
> Will XHTML 2.0 sweep the world?  It's too soon to tell.  Is XHTML 2.0
> worth the effort? I think the answer to that is an obvious yes, and not
> because XHTML needs all the latest XML gimmicks. The Web needs some
> progress in XHTML for the to stay alive.  I worry that at current rates
> of progress the Web will have disappeared by the time the Semantic Web
> is ready.

To me, there are more urgent areas of progress needed:

  * SVG implementations
  * XForms specs and finalization (yes, part of XHTML 2.0, but separable)
  * GUI widgets

But perhaps XHTML can help with:

  * Richer metadata primitives (who created this page, with what tool, 
on what date, ...)
  * Richer linking primitives (next page, previous page, top page, 
printable version, owner-frame, ...)

  Paul Prescod

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