Comment by echelon
20 hours ago
Google didn't want XML to win.
XHTML would have made the Semantic Web (capital letters) possible. Someone else could have done search better. We might have had a proper P2P web.
They wanted sloppy, because only Google scale could deal with that.
Hopefully the AI era might erode that.
The Semantic Web was never going to win. It does not make sense on a fundamental level.
XHTML's failure had nothing to do with it, and is basically unrelated. Even if xhtml won i fail to see how that would have helped semantic web in any way shape or form.
XML died because it sucks. Everyone who had to deal with it back in the day jumped to YAML and/or JSON as quickly as they could. Google didn't cause that, but because they're a search engine they followed it.
I don’t recall Google being the ones to kill XHTML. Got any references to back that claim up?