The way I remember it, there was a guy called Hixie something that was in charge of standards implementation at Mozilla and made a terrific job at that. But the

The way I remember it, there was a guy called Hixie something that was in charge of standards implementation at Mozilla and made a terrific job at that. But then he got hired by Opera and saw that there was no point in competing with Gecko and so he started a FUD campaign called "XHTML considered harmful" to lower market standards. He bluffed you into believing that namespaces are far too complicated for the human mind to comprehend, when in reality XHTML hadn't caught on because the CMS systems were not up to date. He did a terrific job at that, so he got hired by Google to publish a competing specification that was actually based on the way that Internet Explorer 6 parses HTML4. He did at terrific job at that, so we are finally back where we started, with a standard that lives forever while IE6 is long gone, and Goggle can scavenge the specifications from this forgotten future for ideas they can present as original. Even Mozilla played along with the HTML5 scheme, it was like watching a nuclear superpower go down in a fist fight. How can you not call that politics?