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W3C Announces XHTML As Its Recommendation

Posted by michael on from the you've-seen-the-draft,-now-see-the-real-thing dept.

miester writes "Since I haven't seen anything about this on Slashdot I thought I might submit it. W3C has officially recommended that XHTML Basic be the next step for the World Wide Web. Just when I learned how to do tables ...."

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  1. XHTML Basic != XHTML by leighklotz · · Score: 5

    Note that XHTML Basic is a stripped-down version of XHTML for phones, etc. It's meant to be the future of WML, not the future of Netscape (uh, IE, Opera, whatever).

    As for tables, XHTML Basic includes tables, but simplified ones as necessary for reduced screen real-estate devices, not tables as are used to layout complex graphic designs in HTML.

    Give XHTML a try -- as far as web authors go, it's pretty much just using lowercase tags and closing them all. Or try HTML Tidy with the "-clean -asxml" options to convert your HTML pretty effortlessly to XHTML. Current browsers will work fine with it.

    Disclaimer: I am a member of the XML Forms committee, a descendent of XHTML, but I had nothing to do with XHTML Basic.

  2. For The Confused (Shoulda Been In The Summary) by CritterNYC · · Score: 4

    XHTML 1.0 is the current W3C recommendation for regular web content (ie the stuff we use HTML for now). XHTML Basic is basically a subset of the XHTML 1.0 functionality and is "designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes".

    Basically, XHTML Basic has about the same feature set as HTML 3.2: images, forms, simple tables, etc.

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