New W3C working group to improve HTML

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It has been almost seven years since HTML was last updated, and the general belief has been that it would be replaced by XHTML and never be updated again. That has now changed. In the blog post Reinventing HTML (http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166), W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee acknowledges that HTML needs to be kept alive and updated. Making people use XML failed, in large part because of overly forgiving Web browser software:
The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags and namespaces all at once didn't work. The large HTML-generating public did not move, largely because the browsers didn't complain.
Maybe getting the world to switch to valid HTML 4.01 Strict would have been a better, or at least easier, first step?
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