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HTML can never be improved, that is at the very foundation of its current form. We are 20 years into the takeover from the W3C and still can't even do a PUT req
by Devasta 2y ago
HTML can never be improved, that is at the very foundation of its current form. We are 20 years into the takeover from the W3C and still can't even do a PUT request without JS, nevermind anything approaching even one tenth of the functionality of XForms.
The web of semantic documents died years ago, it's an application platform now and that means JS. HTML is naught but a payload carrier.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoAll true, but an error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Perhaps it is finally time to let the web-as-an-application-layer paradigm die?
- aragilar 2y agohttps://alexanderpetros.com/triptych/ https://alexanderpetros.com/triptych/ will hopefully address that.
- Devasta 2y agoI wish them luck, but the last time this was attempted it was rejected as it apparently doesn't make sense that you would even want to do it in the first place. https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10671#c16 https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10671#c16
- aragilar 2y agohttps://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3577#issuecomment-2329578267 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3577#issuecomment-2329... and the links inside appear to imply there's interest?
- pjmlp 2y agoI was really disappointed that XHTML effort was killed by the HTML5 folks, we could be so much better, but it is as it is.
- Devasta 2y agoThe founding members of the WHATWG really are the Thomas Midgley's of the software world. The world will spend the next century of software development trying to repair their screwups.
- pjmlp 2y agoIronically that work is now being made obsolete with apps regaining the role of native apps, or the plugins revenge via WebGL/WebGPU/WebAssembly.