Moving Toward Generic Hypertext Applications

Still hoping for a silver lining

W3C Support The W3C's own standards are still barely using XLink. Getting XLink built into W3C standards seems like a good first step, but it may be a long road. Similarly, even the W3C's Amaya browser lacks generic XML and XLink support.
Browser Support Microsoft has remained very quiet about XLink support. Mozilla does support simple links, though for an older draft.
Application Support XLink has potential for a wide range of data-oriented XML tasks within traditionally non-hypertext applications. Whether or not XLink provides enough tools for that work and whether application developers will see XLink as a plus remains to be seen.