> XSLT has died a gentle death Maybe it is not because that XSLT is complex, but because XML has failed to become a language for the web. JSON has come to be t

> XSLT has died a gentle death Maybe it is not because that XSLT is complex, but because XML has failed to become a language for the web. JSON has come to be the preferred choice. Which brings me to JSON and complexity: The complexity of retrieving data has been paved over multiple times using libraries. This has encouraged people to skip XML and go directly to JSON. If retrieval of XML data, or better yet JSON data, were to become simpler, I think more people would structure their webpages to use these types of resources. In the end, it would be a victory for both open Web and open applications. And that brings me to my last point: Dynamic elements. This web ain't succeeding without variable based dynamics. These pathways for dynamic behaviors have to be baked into browsers from the start. Then let JS abuse that dynamic just like JQuery abuses attributes, styles, and content.