Mozilla, Opera Form Group to Develop Web App Specs

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software have formed a working group to develop specifications for Web applications. The new Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group is working on specs for Web Forms 2.0, Web Apps 1.0 and Web Controls 1.0, among others. This is being done outside of the W3C, with the hope of getting a viable alternative to Longhorn's XAML available soon. Another reason for working outside the W3C could be the rift between Mozilla/Opera and other W3C members over what technologies Web applications solutions such be based on: Mozilla/Opera favour a backwards-compatible HTML-based standard, others are looking towards to XForms and SVG. It will be interesting to see if any other browser developers jump on board WHATWG." This story builds on our recent story concerning the group.

WHATGW...

[Epistax]

... I read that as WHATWJD. And the answer (of course) is smote things.

Re:Failure forseen.

[Anonymous Coward]

...goverments should make Flash illegal?

Now that's a great idea :-)

Re:W3C proving increasingly unable to *do* anythin

[blowdart]

It's about time someone tried to circumvent the W3C.

As long as it's Mozilla? Come on, if Microsoft add something outside a standard there are cries of "embrace and extend", "evil monopoly" and so on. Why is it OK for Mozilla to do skip? Next thing you know the <blink> tag will come back.