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January 27, 2006
XHTML 2.0 vs HTML 5
XHTML 2.0 vs HTML 5: Edd Dumbill writes of the debates over which way browsers should behave next year. I don't have a succinct overview myself. Changes like putting ALT text into a full IMG tag sound like they'd have some effects on the world: "<p><img src="http://example.com/water.png">H<sub>2</sub>O</img></p>" Key quote: "In these two articles, I've presented the salient points of both WHATWG's HTML 5 and the W3C's XHTML 2.0. The two initiatives are quite different: The grassroots-organised WHATWG aims for a gently incremental enhancement of HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, whereas the consortium-sponsored XHTML 2.0 is a comprehensive refactoring of the HTML language. While different, the two approaches are not incompatible." (Related: Sometimes I like to go read the 1993 papers on HTML, the types of jobs for which it was envisioned, and how it was refactored down as a simpler, more learnable, and more uniformly implementable format than SGML....)
Posted by John Dowdell at January 27, 2006 3:16 PM