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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. Re:why some people are upset by Skuggan · · Score: 1, Troll
    The question remains, why are there deprecated elements in a non-backwards compatible markup language?

    It sounds like no logic, or perhaps, Microsoft Logic.

    Serious Question: How much influence does our favorite pet, Microsoft, have in the W3C?

    No I am not trying to bash Microsoft, we all know they are good at somethings (like sucking....)

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