This article is excerpted from HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition, by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, with permission of O’Reilly Media, Inc. All ...

Although the failed effort may have been a work of "philosophical purity," it was overshadowed by HTML 5. Why are Web standards so darned hard to create? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...