> browser is the bay window onto web content for human
> consumption, as you point out, and there is no reason to
> change that just because the web specifications are becoming
> moribund. I'm glad to read that the IE team is back at work.
Yeah, as the "bay window" the browser still is of utmost importance. I
personally am impressed by the more pragmatic attitude that some browser
vendors seem to be taking now [0], going with whatever works best for
the user and can get consensus among browser vendors, rather than doing
user-hostile things in the name of purity to some random irrelevant
spec. In fact, the Hyatt discussion has morphed in a sense into a
discussion about namespaces in HTML [1], and the remarkable thing is
that *none* of these people are suggesting the facist route of "force
the whole world to use XHTML and only then will it work!". That's a
good sign, IMO.
[0] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_07.html#005928
[1] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/07/12/ExtendingHTML
