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UPDATE: I’ve corrected some <html:media> self closing errors (damn XHTML habits) and I have added a statement about backwards compatibility in the questions section.

Below is a long post about the possibilities of HTML with only 7 reserved elements which would use XML namespace syntax, a Form API, and the reserved attributes for those two APIs, which I believe, would make HTML much stronger. Let’s face it, HTML5 is already becoming so, so bloated with too much effort on backwards compatibility. If you just want to skim, here are the table of contents:
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What seems like ages ago, HTML was born. HTML provided a way to structure content and display data. HTML started getting boring and people started hacking it. To suit the needs of the expanding web and the desperate need for web site customization, tags and customization, or stylization, tools came out promptly such as <font>,<center>, and the infamous <blink> and <marquee> tags. Hacking continued and people discovered they could add images to <table>s and combined with all the previous tags could come up with pretty nice looking sites with the expense of completely draining HTML from it’s original application.
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