ATTN: Please comment on XHTML (before it's too late)

[Ann Navarro]

At 08:22 PM 8/29/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote:

>It's going to be brutal just getting people to create well-formed
>XHTML documents and to include the Namespace declaration; 

I've got tens of thousands of constituents that do it every day. Hardly
brutal. 

>getting
>software developers to recognize all three XHTML Namespaces (even if
>doing so requires only a three lines of code) will be all the more
>difficult, and introduces three times the opportunity for bugs and for 
>interoperability problems because of omissions.

If software engineers can't or won't manage three lines of code, where Jane
and Joe Web Developer can write valid, spec-conforming documents, we have a
*real* problem, Houston. And it's not with the spec. 

Ann

---

Author of Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials
Coming in September --- Mastering XML

Founder, WebGeek Communications            http://www.webgeek.com
Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org
Director, HWG Online Education             http://www.hwg.org/services/classes





xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)