XHTML, XForms, and device independence:
XHTML, XForms, and device independence: "No one can deny that HTML has been a great success. But... It is a mess. Both in its design and its use. XHTML is trying to improve the situation." Ha!
What's wrong with a messy world anyway? Sure, a web full of lovely compliant xhtml (with nicely tagged metadata) would be nice, but that wouldn't be the web - that is called a library. We already have those. They can't even get CSS right, I don't think all this is gonna happen anytime soon. Instead, some parts of the web will go clean, large parts of it never will. It doesn't matter. Why don't we focus a bit more on making the web useful - it is still a completely underdeveloped medium. Come on web designers! We have techies, we have designers, now we even have information architects. But where are the people that actually have something to say, to do on the web?