Comment Think of our bottom line! (Score 2, Interesting) 384
I get the feeling that the W3C and these three businesses don't really give a damn about the web or its users. All they care about is the bottom line or justifying their very existence.
From reading their faq and some other articles. It seems they are saying they don't believe in using XML on the web. They are willing to support the cludge use of HTML and XHTML in a more standard way. However, they never intend to become complete XML solutions. I thought this was why XHTML was created in the first place. To begin the transition to complete XML solutions on the web. If they never intended to go the distance why have they waited so long to tell their users?
In the end it just sounds like they want to keep things the way they are now. Just try to agree on a better way of supporting the various markup we have now. They've had years to get HTML to be consistent. Yet, they've not been able to acheive this seemingly simple task. Why would I believe HTML 5 to be any different? XML is supposed to be more precise and standardized. Perhaps that isn't the case, but they sure as hell waited long enough to tell thet rest of us.
From reading their faq and some other articles. It seems they are saying they don't believe in using XML on the web. They are willing to support the cludge use of HTML and XHTML in a more standard way. However, they never intend to become complete XML solutions. I thought this was why XHTML was created in the first place. To begin the transition to complete XML solutions on the web. If they never intended to go the distance why have they waited so long to tell their users?
In the end it just sounds like they want to keep things the way they are now. Just try to agree on a better way of supporting the various markup we have now. They've had years to get HTML to be consistent. Yet, they've not been able to acheive this seemingly simple task. Why would I believe HTML 5 to be any different? XML is supposed to be more precise and standardized. Perhaps that isn't the case, but they sure as hell waited long enough to tell thet rest of us.
