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Of course, this extremely slow adoption rate of XHTML 1.0/1.1 won't stop the W3C from churning out even more standards. *cough* XHTML 2.0 *cough*
Sometimes it seems as if the W3C goes out of its way to be made irrelevant.
-----Original Message-----
From: Didier PH Martin [mailto:martind@netfolder.com]
Sent: Thu 8/15/2002 9:55 AM
To: 'Bullard, Claude L (Len)'; 'Simon St.Laurent'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Cc:
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] What the .... ? Referencing XSL stylesheets across domains
Hi Len
Len said:
No. HTML legacy is.
Didier replies:
I agree. Add to this a lack of incentive to move to a multi-device
rendering architecture. From our research we discovered that, most of
the time, the same content is not published on different devices,
instead, different content is published on different devices.
Even if MS Explorer can process, locally, decent stylesheets, the
actual servers' infrastructure cannot leverage this feature by
partitioning the transformation process between the server and the
client.
Conclusion: The web is still based on HTML and not yet on XML (with the
exception of few successful XML publishing implementations). At Didier's
labs, I let a robot run for several month in order to find published
XHTML documents and guess what, I discovered only a few. When we compare
the number of XHTML documents found to the size of the web we are
talking here of the dimensions of a mountain ( a huge one)compared to
the dimensions of an electron. So to speak, there's practically no XHTML
documents on the web.
Yep HTML is still the king of the web :-)
Cheers
Didier PH Martin
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