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Article: W3C does about-face on HTML.(Word Wide Web Consortium)
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- ePostal News
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- March 19, 2007
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), admitting that, well, hmm, it was wrong in trying to XML-ize poor HTML years ago, is going to reverse course and stop trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
It's finally figured out that the market doesn't want XHTML, the six-year-old XML-based HTML. At least the market doesn't want it on the desktop like it was supposed to. It might be nice for blogs or mobile or back-end servers or enterprise applications but not the desktop. No, no, no.
XHTML didn't get adopted on the desktop--maybe because it wasn't backward compatible with HTML or offer much in the way of authoring benefits or it was too complicated--but ...