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XHTML 2.0 Working Draft
Rytsarsky writes: "W3C has released the first public working draft of XHTML 2.0. 'XHTML 2 is a markup language intended for rich, portable web-based applications. While the ancestry of XHTML 2 comes from HTML 4, XHTML 1.0, and XHTML 1.1, it is not intended to be backward compatible with its earlier versions.' Some notable changes are the introduction of navigational lists (<nl>), sectional hierarchy with <section>, and the long-awaited deprecation of <br> in favor of <line>."
Read the definition, and you'll find it's not about the name of the tag. It's about the structure. Lines are now marked up like paragraphs -- they are not separated by empty tags.
I'm assuming you meant the img element. See the object element instead. That's what you'd use to embed media in the page.
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- Navigation Lists (<nl>), with a default rendering not unlike a DHTML menu. This will likely be controlable by CSS using display: and
:hover as seen on CSS/Edge - <q> becomes <quote>, a new <dfn> element, and <b> and <i> have been completely removed. <br> is going in favour of <line> which will help with DOM and CSS. <hr> is still there for some reason. (Text Module).
- New <section> element. <h1> and friends are still in the draft, but are accompanied by a new <h> element to go with each (nestable) <section>.
- <a> is still here; no XLink in this draft, despite it being a recommendation.
- Forms are now replaced by XForms, also a Working Draft.
- No more <img> or <embed>. They're replaced by the technically superior <object>. Let's hope certain companies can actually be bothered to impliment it properly.
- Frames replaced by XFrames (nothing public yet).
- A few more global attributes, and the use of XML Events for scripting events.
Also, for those interested in such things, the CSS 2.1 Working Draft has been released too.