[Devasta]

HTML can never be improved, that is at the very foundation of its current form. We are 20 years into the takeover from the W3C and still can't even do a PUT request without JS, nevermind anything approaching even one tenth of the functionality of XForms.

The web of semantic documents died years ago, it's an application platform now and that means JS. HTML is naught but a payload carrier.

[forgetfreeman]

All true, but an error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Perhaps it is finally time to let the web-as-an-application-layer paradigm die?

[aragilar]

https://alexanderpetros.com/triptych/ will hopefully address that.

[Devasta]

I wish them luck, but the last time this was attempted it was rejected as it apparently doesn't make sense that you would even want to do it in the first place.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10671#c16

[aragilar]

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3577#issuecomment-2329... and the links inside appear to imply there's interest?

[pjmlp]

I was really disappointed that XHTML effort was killed by the HTML5 folks, we could be so much better, but it is as it is.

[Devasta]

The founding members of the WHATWG really are the Thomas Midgley's of the software world. The world will spend the next century of software development trying to repair their screwups.

[pjmlp]

Ironically that work is now being made obsolete with apps regaining the role of native apps, or the plugins revenge via WebGL/WebGPU/WebAssembly.