And we could have goten something similar to XAML, instead of the HTML, CSS magi...

coldtea · on Oct 29, 2014

Do the names XHTML2, XForms, XLink, XEvents invoke an image of something like XAML to you?

We would have ended in some huge JAVA EE circa 2004 mess, with XML to spare and perhaps RDF and a couple ad-hoc languages thrown in for good measure.

pjmlp · on Oct 29, 2014

Yes, because in the XHTML world, tags could loose any semantic meaning.

In HTML 5, one is abandoned to the CSS tricks and JavaScript hacks to make visual UI components of HTML tags.

Every time I get a consultant gig outside the web world, I rejoice.

Yet I've spend a big part of my career involved in web development.