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HTML V5 and XHTML V2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the battle-of-the-markup dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches chosen by the developers to make those improvements are very different. With differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years, the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. This article uncovers the bigger picture behind the details of these two standards."

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  1. Re:Where is Microsoft? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Informative

    Both standards are being worked on the by the W3C standards group. Microsoft, along with all other major browser developers, is a member.

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  2. Re:Web Applications? by gsnedders · · Score: 5, Informative

    HTML 5 is aiming to support various things needed for web applications (in fact, the current draft is formed of two documents: Web Applications 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0). Also, see http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/admin/charter.html.

  3. are html 5 and xhtml 2 worked on by W3C? by falconwolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    Both standards are being worked on the by the W3C standards group.

    According to the IBM paper html 5 is being done independently of the W3C. "In April 2007, the W3C voted on a proposal to adopt HTML V5 for review" is about as much as W3C has with html 5.

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    1. Re:are html 5 and xhtml 2 worked on by W3C? by VP · · Score: 3, Informative

      Both standards are being worked on the by the W3C standards group.

      According to the IBM paper html 5 is being done independently of the W3C. "In April 2007, the W3C voted on a proposal to adopt HTML V5 for review" is about as much as W3C has with html 5.


      Falcon Wrong. The W3C restructured the original HTML working group. Here is Tim Berners-Lee's initial message about the refocusing of the efforts for evolving HTML, and here are the details for the two new working groups - the HMTL working group and the XHTML2 working group.
  4. Re:I bet my ass.. by bcrowell · · Score: 3, Informative

    Anyone thinking of clicking on the parent's link (to vumit.com) should realize that it's a goatsex-style shocker page.

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  5. Re:Where is Microsoft? by Bogtha · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's one of them, yes. It really depends on what you want to do; for example you don't need anything other than typical mousedown event handlers for things like Google Maps, and you can use things like dynamically generated image URIs to send data back to the server asynchronously, which is compatible all the way back to Netscape 2. There are lots of options, the value in XMLHttpRequest is more convenience than functionality.

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  6. Re:Where is Microsoft? by Selanit · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't believe Google Maps uses XMLHttpRequest anyway.

    Err, yes it does. From the Google Maps API reference:

    The Google Maps API is now integrated with the Google AJAX API loader, which creates a common namespace for loading and using multiple Google AJAX APIs. This framework allows you to use the optional google.maps.* namespace for all classes, methods and properties you currently use in the Google Maps API, replacing the normal G prefix with this namespace. Don't worry: the existing G namespace will continue to be supported.

    And that's just a recent refinement. Google Maps has used the XMLHttpRequest object for ages. Yes, it's possible to get a similar effect using hidden iframes and such, but doing it that way is really awkward. They'd have to be crazy to pass that amount of data back and forth that way when they've got XMLHttpRequest.