Comments on: Reinventing HTML: it may be too late

By: Karl Dubost, W3C

Karl Dubost, W3C — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:47:47 +0000

You said:

The key question is what the de facto powers of the web will do, the likes of Microsoft, Adobe, Google, and Mozilla. Without their support, HTML 5.0 is nothing – and I don’t mean just the token person on the committee.

The new group is being proposed to the W3C membership as large because Opera, Mozilla, Apple (and other members in the community) have asked for it. So yes the WG will be including every major desktop browsers including Microsoft, at the condition that the group starts. It will be decided in a few weeks from now on by W3C Memberships, including the company which have been cited.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:48:02 +0000

Hernán

Follow the link to Tim Berners-Lee blog entry above.

Of coure the W3C has driven some XML adoption; but it has failed to displace HTML with XHTML.

By: Hernán Conejeros

Hernán Conejeros — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:36:25 +0000

I tried to seek something about “HTML 5.0″ and also try to percolate the W3C’s site W3C about the same subject and didn’t find no important information.
And that Tim Berners-Lee says the W3C has failed to drive adoption of XML; sorry, I don´t believe. Where and when this declaration came from?

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:03:35 +0000

The way to get developers to move to a new standard is to give us things that we actually need. They can sneak some good for you fibre in there at the same time if they want.