Hello, Neal Deakin comments on the new WHAT WG initiative in the blog story over at XUL Planet titled "What is the WHAT?".
Neal writes: WHAT is just trying to build a few additional features onto HTML, CSS and the DOM to allow more sophisticated interaction, perhaps what XHTML really should be. Specifically, the goal is to allow better interfaces for web pages and not to build applications like image editors or web browsers. This will certainly be simpler for web developers and is a much better transition. I personally would like to see HTML include much more document oriented features, and even XHTML 2.0 doesn't provide much of this. The folks in the standalone web applications camp that prefer using XForms and SVG and the like seem to want to build an entire platform. That's fine, but that is rather a lot of work, and may not have a lot of return value considering that there are lots of platforms already. The biggest disadvantage is that they are starting fresh without much of an existing base to build on. Sure, they have XHTML and SVG and the like, but these are fairly new, don't have a lot of implementations to 'harden' them and are hardly the right languages to form the basis of an application. More @ http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/article/262 Any comments? Any thoughts? - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
