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XHTML 2.0 Working Draft

Posted by timothy on from the navigational-lists-oooh dept.

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>."

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  1. Re:a resounding "eh?" by Fweeky · · Score: 3, Insightful

    CSS 1 is about 6 years old, it's only seriously been usable for the last couple of years. Just because a standard isn't used much or handled properly doesn't mean it won't be eventually, or that the standard is worthless and hence shouldn't have been created.

    XHTML is already quite popular, because it provides a path to XML without breaking legacy clients. The top three clients already support parsing XML and rendering closely to the standards when it's served with the right Content-Type.

    XHTML 2 is another step towards this, loosing the legacy crap of HTML 4 and fixing problems without worrying about backwards compatibility. Hell, stick to the basics and you can provide for most of the tags for *current* clients with a bit of CSS.

    This is only a working draft, anyway. I wouldn't expect it to reach recommendation stage this year. Don't forget, they need two interoperable implimentations of each feature to even be concidered :)