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The Future is XHTML 2.0

Posted by Zonk on from the to-the-future-infinity-boy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As with its past, the future of HTML will be varied, some might say messy, but I believe XHTML 2.0 will ultimately receive widespread acceptance and adoption. A big move in this direction will be in Embedded devices such as phones and digital TVs, which will have no need to support the Web's legacy of messy HTML, and are free to take unburdened advantage of XHTML 2.0. This Developer Works article examines the work of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in creating the next-generation version of their XHTML specification, and also their response to the demand for 'rich client" behavior exemplified by Ajax applications.'

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  1. Time for an Internet Reboot by DigitalRaptor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think it's time for the internet to stop catering to the past.

    Can you imagine our interstates if we still catered to stage coaches, horse drawn carriages, and Model T's?

    Can you imagine television if we still catered to black and white TV's?

    Change happens. Get over it. It's not like Firefox cost's $3,995.00 per copy.

    When people can no longer recognize the sites they like, they'll get the hint and upgrade.

    It won't be sites like Amazon.com that bring about this change, it will be sites like HomeStarRunner.com, JibJab, that don't have billions of dollars in sales to lose, but can be just as influential in a grassroots way.

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    1. Re:Time for an Internet Reboot by Daniel_Staal · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Bad examples, for your point. Stage Coaches, horse drawn carriages, and Model T's can operate on current roads. They just have to follow current rules. You'll actually see horse drawn carriages fairly frequently in some areas. They'd get a ticket on the freeways, but so would a car that has their top speed.

      Also: Television signals still are in a format black and white TV's accept. They can't read the whole signal, but they work just as well as they did before.

      This is how the web's evolving. The current standards are built on past ones, and older browsers can usually use most of a newer site. Same as horse drawn carriages and black and white TV's.

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  2. Yeah, whatever by argoff · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Every so many years they come out with this new exciting standard that turns out to go nowhere. That is because technology isn't standards driven, it is standards that are freedom/technology driven. For example, Linux (in spite of all the distros) has done more to standardize the OS that all the POSIX standards committies and Motif (renember that one) and CDE (renember that one too) standards combined. Typically a good stnadard is one where people created it first to meet a need, everyone started using it, then the standards committie eventually get arround to formalizing it. If it doesn't happen in that order, it is most likely crap.