Hi Schimon, hi list, On 2026-03-15 03:27, Schimon Jehudah via Standards wrote:
I am not an XSF member, yet I am interested to reinstate XHTML-IM.
I have useful ideas that would be possible with XHTML-IM.
I used to be in favour of XHTML-IM, too, but now I'm not convinced anymore myself. Let's talk about use cases first. I see: 1. Blogging with rich structure, like sections/subsections and tables. If I'm not mistaken, XHTML-IM only has poor support for the former (H1..H6 instead of "real" sections like e.g. DocBook/XML) and no support for the latter. 2. Chatting or blogging with enriched syntax, like bold/italic, or clickable links. For the former, XHTML-IM as it is now, is not sufficient, IMHO. Both XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP and XEP-0472: Pubsub Social Feed refer to Atom and XHTML, but unfortunately recommend the XHTML-IM subset. For the latter, we have XEP-0393: Message Styling and XEP-0394: Message Markup. Which are missing clickable links, but that could be added or we rely on XEP-0511: Link Metadata? Cheers