I've been saying exactly the same, since Hickson first started this
debacle. The initial premises and goals of HTML5 are misguided, and
are setting the standards initiative back years, setting it up to lose
out spectacularly to proprietary solutions.
HTML5 is designed by and written by browser developers who're
looking to simplify their browser development burdens, to create
something that's a simple evolution of what already exists today.
Now, that would be fine if a) we didn't already have that with XHTML
and friends, and b) the rest of the industry wasn't building up
towards the next generation of internet based applications, way
beyond HTML5's timid goals.
What should have been done is for momentum to be put behind
XHTML and friends, and for those standards to be evolved towards
next generation internet applications. Instead a massive time sink,
dead end tangent has been created that's going to leave HTML
looking increasingly archaic, misguided and irrelevant over the next
few years.
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