You may be familiar with HTML and XML, those ubiquitous languages used for marking up web pages and other material. Chances are you also use emoticons or “smilies”. Now prepare to combine these two concepts. The W3C - the organization behind HTML, CSS, and other web-weaving norms - recently launched the Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group, which will formulate a specification draft for an emotion markup language.
The group has published a questionnaire where everyone is invited to provide their opinion about the priorities that should be given to various features of such a language.
In related news, the W3C has also published a draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the web. HTML 4.01, the version currently in force, was published on Christmas Eve 1999, more than eight years ago.
HTML 5 is intended to be backwards compatible with HTML 4, at least in most cases.
What do you think about these developments? Please post your comments!
External links:
- W3C Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group
- Prioritising requirements for an Emotion Markup Language
- HTML 5 - A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML
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