XHTML2, XForms, RDF/a

Steven Pemberton, CWI and W3C, Amsterdam

XHTML2, XForms, RDF/a BOF

Present: IBM, Vodafone, Google, Novell, STC, W3C

Discussions were wide-ranging, reflecting the diversity of interests of those present

• Using XHTML2 as single-authoring format, and forking to devices
• Relationship to Mobile Best Practices document
• Using RDF/a to aid forking, how search engines should deal with forking
• What search engines should do with meta data
• "Web 2.0", Ajax, and microformats and how they are a success story for W3C (since they are all based on technologies designed at W3C 5-8 years ago), and what W3C's current batch of technologies will mean for the future web.
• The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and how that relates to those three terms