456 Berea Street
7th Nov 2006, 02:30 pm
This article has been written on behalf of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG (http://whatwg.org/)) and has been cross posted on The Web Standards Project (http://www.webstandards.org/2006/11/07/have-your-say-about-the-future-of-html/), Lachy's Log (http://lachy.id.au/log/2006/11/future-of-html), Molly.com (http://molly.com/2006/11/07/have-your-say-about-the-future-of-html/) and 456 Berea Street.
There's been a lot of discussion about the W3C's recent decision to continue the development of HTML (http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166) around the web lately. Blog posts, and messages sent to mailing lists and posted on forums, revealed many questions and misconceptions about the future of HTML (including HTML 5 and XHTML 2), the WHATWG and the W3C's new HTML Working Group.
Some people asked for new features (http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200610/new_w3c_working_group_to_improve_html/); others were wondering if formerly deprecated elements would return; some had comments and criticisms about the decision itself (http://cafe.elharo.com/xml/why-tim-berners-lee-is-wrong/), the WHATWG or W3C process; and a few raised concerns about the WHATWG and W3C ignoring the needs of particular groups (http://blog.fawny.org/2006/10/28/tbl-html/). The WHATWG, who are in the process of developing the next version of HTML (called HTML 5), feel that it's important to not only listen to all of this feedback, but to actively seek it out and respond so that we can develop a language that meets your needs.
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There's been a lot of discussion about the W3C's recent decision to continue the development of HTML (http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166) around the web lately. Blog posts, and messages sent to mailing lists and posted on forums, revealed many questions and misconceptions about the future of HTML (including HTML 5 and XHTML 2), the WHATWG and the W3C's new HTML Working Group.
Some people asked for new features (http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200610/new_w3c_working_group_to_improve_html/); others were wondering if formerly deprecated elements would return; some had comments and criticisms about the decision itself (http://cafe.elharo.com/xml/why-tim-berners-lee-is-wrong/), the WHATWG or W3C process; and a few raised concerns about the WHATWG and W3C ignoring the needs of particular groups (http://blog.fawny.org/2006/10/28/tbl-html/). The WHATWG, who are in the process of developing the next version of HTML (called HTML 5), feel that it's important to not only listen to all of this feedback, but to actively seek it out and respond so that we can develop a language that meets your needs.
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Posted in (X)HTML (http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/categories/xhtml/).
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