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W3C's New XHTML 2.0 Draft A Mistake?

Posted by timothy on from the all-change-is-bad dept.

EchoMirage writes "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been quietly working on drafts for a proposed XHTML 2.0 standard. But some well-known and well-respected web authors are balking at the proposal, because it invalidates several well-used tags. Given that XHTML 1.1 hasn't even seen any wide use yet, and many browsers are still working on basic HTML 4 and CSS1 compatibility, many people are questioning the W3C's push to create new standards before the old ones are solidly in place."

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  1. new standard by jes5199 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    welll
    maybe we shouldn't try to fix HTML.
    perhaps it's just time to
    screw all backward compatability
    and make a
    small
    simple
    modular
    markup language
    from scratch
    with a well defined way to do scripts and other dynamic things from the beginning

    --
    monkeys.