ElementML ElementML What the heck is this? This is a markup language created solely with the <element> element. This language is created because of the belief that this is what the World Wide Web Consortium is really aiming for: The reduction of all markup to a single element, with CSS handling everything else. What will this page prove? Hopefully looking at the code of this page will prove just how ridiculously complicated relying entirely on CSS for presentation and "simplifying" a markup language can make things. With XHTML 2.0tm cutting out a ton of presentational tags, we have to use a pile of <span> tags with their classes, rather than the shorter and more semantic presentational tags. For example, in days past, if you wanted your text to be large, you wrote <big>(big text here)</big>. Unfortunately, that doesn't work anymore. Now you have to write <span class="big">(big text here)</span>, along with the required CSS. So why create this page? So I can say one thing: I beat the World Wide Web Consortium to the punch. In other words, "phblblblblblblblt" on the W3C. Before you ask, yes, I did create an entire Document Type Definition for this page, and it does validate. Below are some links to discussions on this page: The Future of HTML Is this what the W3C is gunning for? Back to Experiments