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Stop Standardizing HTML

Posted by Unknown on from the remember-xhtml-2.0 dept.

pfignaux writes with an interesting view on the place of centralized standardization in modern browsers. From the article: "When HTML first appeared, it offered a coherent if limited vocabulary for sharing content on the newly created World Wide Web. Today, after HTML has handed off most of its actual work to other specifications, it's time to stop worrying about this central core and let developers choose their own markup vocabularies and processing." Instead, the author proposes that CSS, Javascript+DOM, the W3C's accessibility framework, and Web Components are sufficient to implement the rendering of smaller, domain-specific markups.

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  1. Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about "no"?

    1. Re:Nope by poetmatt · · Score: 4, Informative

      close enough standards compliance?

      please. Microsoft tries to break standards by introducing their own. Don't blame HTML for that.