Looks to me like "oh crap, they've nearly committed to the spec and [I'm guessing] have near complete implementations ready to [alpha] test; lets see if we can

Looks to me like "oh crap, they've nearly committed to the spec and [I'm guessing] have near complete implementations ready to [alpha] test; lets see if we can muscle in and mess it all up". Seriously one of their objections is: Those that use HTMLElement for their interface provide no extra functionality beyond <div class="xxx"> or <span class="">. If they are necessary, do we know if this is the correct set? Are there any missing?" Well, duh, have you heard of the semantic web? The sections aren't necessary, they don't have to be complete either and wading in at this late stage with such basic issues seems rather unhelpful to me (as an outsider to the spec definition process). I'll also declare I'd pinned my hopes on XHTML2, which would have come next (as the webs major hypertext implementation) IMO if it weren't for MS not handling xhtml as xml.