October 5, 2000
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XML is killing the web? Once again, John C. Dvorak proves that he doesn’t have the slightest clue what the hell he’s talking about. He claims that XML and its acronymonic brethren are causing the “death of simplicity” in terms of web development.
“The way I see it, XML will sneak into the scene, and eventually browsers will be optimized for XML until simple HTML no longer displays properly.”
Nobody ever said that HTML was going away. Nobody ever said it was going to be replaced by XML. HTML and XML serve different, but related purposes. If anything, XML is going to help open up the brain-bendingly complex world of web development to a much broader audience, because it has a fundamentally simpler document structure than proprietary or closed environment content storage systems. HTML will evolve into XHTML, which plays nicely with XML and is what HTML should have been in the first place. Via dack
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