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Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5

Posted by kdawson on from the overdue-updates dept.

foo fighter writes "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been slumbering the past several years: HTML was last updated in 1999, XHTML was last updated in 2002, and no one is taking seriously their largely incompatible work on 'next-generation' XHTML or 'modularized' XHTML. Both HTML and XHTML are in sorry need of removing deprecated items while being updated to reflect the current practices of web and browser developers and remaining compatible with legacy Recommendations. The much more open and transparent WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group), formed in 2004 to address this problem, and has been hard at work on developing a draft spec for HTML5 to update and replace legacy versions of both HTML and XHTML. The quality of this work has reached the point that Apple, Opera, and Mozilla have requested the adoption of HTML5 as the new 'W3C Recommendation' for Web development."

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  1. I started to by caluml · · Score: 4, Funny

    I started to code my pages in XHTML. But it's just not worth it. Use what works. :)

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  2. 5??? by aicrules · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just figured out HTML1 and I am still crying that doesn't work! :~(

  3. Re:The More they add, the less I like by Doctor-Optimal · · Score: 5, Funny

    They can have my blink tag when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!

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  4. Re:The More they add, the less I like by dhalgren · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's what you did during Stairway to Heaven in grade 10.

    Unless you're a Slashdot regular, of course.

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