Markup Language Battle
March 30th, 2007
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Both X/HTML 5 and XHTML 2 are competing to replace HTML 4 and XHTML 1. I have read that although development is in the early stages, some browser vendors have already stated their preference for one spec over the other. According to xhtml.com, as a result of the haste and closed nature of deliberations, this issue is starting to split the Web standards community.
As the two specs progress, more development and marketing dollars will be invested into one spec than the other, and all the ingredients are in place for a standards war.
xhtml.com
I find it amusing that many elements of the HTML 4 standard (which was adopted as a spec in December of 1999) have yet to be adopted by certain browser vendors. This is likely to mean that full adoption of either of the above mentioned standards is years away.
Portions of the above article were paraphrased from http://xhtml.com/en/future/x-html-5-versus-xhtml-2/
Semantic Frenzy says:
XHTML 2 versus HTML 5 cleaned up…
Since the last version of HTML (HTML 4.01) there have been many advancements.
XHTML 1.0 was a reformulation of HTML in XML. With XHTML 1.1 modularisation was introduced and the transitional variants of XHTML were finally abolished (sigh).
For the nex…
May 15th, 2007 at 10:50 am