Paul Prescod wrote:
>  To me, there are more urgent areas of progress needed:
>  
>   * SVG implementations
>   * XForms specs and finalization (yes, part of XHTML 2.0, but separable)
>   * GUI widgets
>  
>  But perhaps XHTML can help with:
>  
>   * Richer metadata primitives (who created this page, with what tool, on 
>  what date, ...)
>   * Richer linking primitives (next page, previous page, top page, 
>  printable version, owner-frame, ...)

All those exist, it's just that dated browsers like IE don't support them. 
Mozilla, for instance, does.

You mention SVG and GUI widgets in almost the same breath. That's a place where 
XHTML could help. By being integrated into a common profile with SVG, one would 
gain a nice number of widgets that could be reimplemented in SVG but would be 
much simpler with an XHTML renderer at hand, tables and lists being good candidates.

-- 
Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@[...].fr> 
Research Engineer, Expway
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