I saw your post on the TM blog, and really wanted to get in touch with you about it. Having worked with the XHTML/CSS/JS/PHP syntaxes over the past few months, I know where some of the weaknesses are and many of them have been noted for a long time, but it is always good to hear from someone new and fresh.
The problems we are having with the (X)HTML syntaxes are how to structure them up, avoiding repetitions, making them work with multiple other syntaxes (such as PHP, Ruby, etc). Many of the causes for these limitations have just been removed in 1.1b14+, and I am trying to rework the (X)HTML syntaxes to work better, including specific level highlighting like the <form> tags you mentioned.
Actually, if you look at the PHP syntax you will find that there are specific syntax groups for each of the various function groups, so that you could have MySQL specific functions in green, while the Array specific functions are Yellow if you would want that, and the ultimate aim of the (X)HTML syntaxes are something along those lines.
The problem with (X)HTML is that it's a beast in my mind, and kind of hard to grasp firmly at times. So if you can find the time and energy to help with that we all would be grateful
What would I/we do ... is there some organised taskforce behind this or is it just to come up with ideas? I don't know if I feel up to develop some sort of standard and sort up the entire XHTML language nice and tidy, but I could sure give feedback and requests and ideas.
Is there some current special problems or anything to look at? To be honest I don't know how deep I want to go, but it could be fun to be a small part at least, so things can go my way ;)
PS: Just for clarification I am just a happy TM user that is helping out with some of the WebDev syntaxes.
Yep, good to know.
Andreas