Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents
The [W3C-sponsored workshop](http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/agenda) arrived, and the outcome is as moribund (for the Internet) as one might have expected. Backwards compatibility was on almost nobody’s agenda (except the web browser *implementors*). Most of the people who presented positions were server-side vendors, and they didn’t care about that, or about things like [MOSE](http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2003/06/25/mose/). It looks like anything that the W3C pick will be as useful to the Internet in general as XForms or SVG have been.
Reactions from [Ian Hickson](http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1086158925&count=1) and [Joe Gregorio](http://bitworking.org/news/3270_Redux).