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   RE: [xml-dev] XHTML 2.0 and the death of XLink and XPointer?

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If one takes the position that what is is and is not 
to be improved without grandfathering what is, there 
is no application and no room for improvement.
This tautologically defines a way away from innovation 
and that is becoming a habit at the W3C. 

Hardcoding HTML into a gencoding system got it out 
there fast, but the consequences for innovation were 
and will always be unpleasant.

Continuous grandfathering of old designs is a recipe for  
complexity.  The problem of the WWW is that the 
commercial practice of shelving a product past it's useful 
lifecycle has never been practiced.

len





 

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