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The Future of HTML

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the what-lies-in-store dept.

An anonymous reader writes "HTML isn't a very good language for making Web pages. However, it has been a very good language for making the Web. This article examines the future of HTML and what it will mean to Web authors, browser and developers. It covers the incremental approach embodied by the WHATWG specifications and the radical cleanup of XHTML proposed by the W3C. Additionally, the author gives an overview of the W3C's new Rich Client Activity."

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  1. JavaScript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The thing I think needs the most attention is javascript or the use of. I hate coding things twice and all the limitations. I would love to see a full featured object oriented standard language.

    And suddenly pigs fly out of my arse.

  2. Re:A simple programming language would have been b by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Troll

    He should have developed a JavaScript-like solution half a decade before JavaScript was made available? Do you understand how fucking stupid that idea makes you sound?

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    Cyric Zndovzny at your service.