Using a plug-in has the distinct advantage that you can support all browsers with a plug-in architecture – heck, even IE6! – and the rendered output will look and behave exactly the same on all plattforms (well, not everywhere. It’s not the same a desktop pc with a large screen or a smartphone with touchscreen, but that will be solved by means of profiles (á la CSS-media rules) and other cool features).

I personally am not an expert enough on the topic to say whether such a technology would be superior to the current standards, or even if it was, how easy it would be to learn and deploy. But in general, most good ideas start as crazy ones.

I’m going to let out just a little bit: What I call XHS is a combination of two technologies: a new language whose syntax is derived from CSS, called HSS (Hierarchical Style Sheets) and good ol’ XML for the content. The publishing of the web documents remain plain text files, and it will be an open standard every can code for. The document will be displayed using a browser plug-in, developed by the open source community.

I propose an open source project, like WebKit, but where everybody’s contribution adds to the web as a whole. This way, browser makers could stop wasting time in reinventing the wheel, and focus on what makes their software special. And authors know exactaly what they can expect in how their pages will be rendered.

This is part of a project of mine, which, if everything goes as planned, will change the web forever. Next to it, HTML+CSS will look like we’ve been living in the stone age :) If you want to have a chat, and want me to tell you more about it, well you have my email address ;)

And by the way, it is VeoSotano, not VeoSanto ;)

Cheers

P.D. How can I have my custom avatar? If I get one, I’ll stop by and add to the conversation more often, I promise :D