Re: [xml-dev] Where is XML going

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 12/5/10 5:11 PM, Ben Trafford wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 16:04 -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>> useful outside of the web browser, that would still be a success. At
>> this point I have no expectations that XML will be used directly in
>> the browser. That ship has sailed. (though I do feel compelled to note
>> that XML failed on the web not because XML was the wrong answer. XML
>> on the Web failed due to misfeasance by both browser vendors and the
>> W3C.)
>
> Very similar arguments were made 15 years ago when the XML efforts were
> underway. "The SGML ship has sailed." That wasn't a good reason to
> ignore the issue then, and it isn't now.

Well, except that we tried and didn't get much traction.  I'm not sure 
why you expect a different result.

> In addition, as I've already pointed out, browsers support all the
> behaviors I've described, and XML already has -some- support in
> virtually every browser. This is low-hanging fruit.

Low-hanging fruit in its current form, but low-hanging fruit in 
convincing browser vendors to add to their fairly grudging XML support? 
Have you spent much time around the brutal wit of the HTML5 crowd?

Thanks,
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/