Flutterby™! : Web Standards

Mark Pilgrim: "Standards are bullshit. XHTML is a crock. The W3C is irrelevant." Yep. And the only people trying for semantic markup these days are the people playing with RSS, with its schismed 1.0/2.0ness and its cop-out of entity encoding HTML, which means that you've still got to have a danged HTML parser. Part of this is the lack of tools, both producing and consuming, but more of this is just that after a while standards groups become dominated either by corporate agendas that have more to gain by bloating and stifling the process than by building lean consensus, and by kids with no real-world experience.