Brutkey

Jens Finkhäuser
@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de

@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The WHATWG position paper is from 2004: https://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/opera.html

The working draft cited there edited by Google. Full authors at the bottom:
https://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/

XHTML 2.0 specs have been sitting in decision limbo since 2002, when it was finished: https://www.w3.org/2007/03/XHTML2-WG-charter

Jens Finkhäuser
@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de

@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The last bit of glue, which I can only give you second hand from personal acquaintances I shall not out here, is the frustration in XHTML WG about Google and Apple blocking adoption with ever more spurious reasons.

There's probably an archive of minutes somewhere.

Jens Finkhäuser
@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de

@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The public archive of XHTML starts in 2007, but the private part requires membership.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/

Jens Finkhäuser
@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de

@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social I mean, there's also that Mozilla Corporation was launched in 2005, and crypto turd Marc Andreessen decided that was a good moment to heap praise on the new CEO https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1972656_1972712_1974235,00.html

Tumultous times, which weren't all dark. Firefox started making waves after this.

So here's another thing to contemplate.