HTML5 HERALDS A BRIGHT FUTURE

Because It Is Not Supposed To Be Tied

To private standards or quirky implementations peddled by indiviuals or companies.

As such it represents a new foundation for a free and open future for information, controlled by and for its consumers.

IN REALITY, OF COURSE

Their Complexity Alone Precludes The Kind of Freedom

Where content can be freely adapted to its most useful form. When content requires

a complex abstract machine implementation to parse it, let alone render it in a conforming way,

information consumers are at the mercy of those who can produce the software to give them access.

And The Promise Of Open Information, The Open Web

IS RATHER AN EMPTY ONE