The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2

Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by nitwit005 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @07:15AM (#21369041)

It's worth remembering that, because there were no Javascript or HTML APIs for many things people felt their pages needed, a huge portion of the web was loading up flash, silverlight, or java applets.

Now, maybe they never should have allowed Flash and friends, but the genie was well out of the bottle. You could either have HTML and JS based functionality, or the plugins.

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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by zmix on Sunday October 27, 2019 @01:39PM (#21371171)

> It's worth remembering that, because there were no Javascript or HTML APIs for many things people felt their pages needed

The OA states in his article, that he is fine with many of the new APIs. It's not HTML5 vs. XHTML, it's 'applified web' vs. 'document web'. And I agree.

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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by skunkpocalypse on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:36AM (#21369335)

WHATWG should have published a standard to replace Flash -- all the same goals as Flash, but a clean-slate standards-driven design.

Instead they infected the HTML standard with everything Flash was being used for.

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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by zozbot234 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:55AM (#21369408)

Um, they did exactly that via HTML canvas. Replacing the main use cases for both Flash and Java applets.

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