Xhtml 2.0

Rie · 03-07-2003, 07:25 PM

I just finished reading the working draft at w3 (http://www.w3.org) for XHTML 2.0, and I believe they have totally lost their minds. First off, being incompatible with older versions is drastic upon its own, but if there was a reason for it, I wouldn't mind. There isn't one. 99% of the changes involve getting rid of empty elements, and just slapping off some useful attributes such as "style" in favor of a all-stylesheet document. In other words, this means that in the name of "compatibility", tons of scripts, programs, ect. will have to be re-designed to setup with XHTML 2.0. I'm still putting my hopes in the proposed "HTML 5.0" made by some people, which gets back to the day-by-day design functions of HTML. While I support where w3 is going with this, I just think it's too fast, too soon.

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working draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml2-20030131/)

skawave · 03-10-2003, 11:43 AM

Too fast too soon? How long have we been using HTML 4.01? I'm personally glad xhtml 2 is going in the direction it is. XML is the saving grace for alot of tasks, and xhtml 2 is a complete xml application that seems to give more usability to people who use it. While people like http://www.diveintomark.org hate it, others like http://www.w3future.com/ use it and love it.

We'll see what happens when a final recommendation is published