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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. Where is Microsoft? by bogaboga · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is Microsoft involved in this at all? If it is, then I am worried. Other than that, I can only say..."bring it on." It will be a matter of some kind of plug-in to make all viable browsers feel at home in whatever environment they find themselves in.

    1. Re:Where is Microsoft? by Lord+Ender · · Score: 1, Troll

      are possible without XMLHttpRequest and I don't believe Google Maps uses XMLHttpRequest anyway
      http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/95/maps2/main.js:

      function NE(){try{if(typeof ActiveXObject!="undefined"){return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")}else if(window.XMLHttpRequest){return new XMLHttpRequest}}catch(a){}return null}
      you FAIL!
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  2. i choose html v4.01 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    nobody cares about new web standards anymore.

  3. Linus is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have to agree with Linus on this one.
    His position on the matter is right on as always.

  4. So I guess... by Snarkhunter · · Score: 0, Troll

    So I guess the question is which one Microsoft will ignore the most?

  5. Re:I bet my ass.. by coryking · · Score: 1, Troll

    So if you are a developer and not a designer, why do you think you are qualified to even talk about how we should design our HTML or what browsers we should target?

    Stop being so damn myopic and think like a designer or even *gasp* a business person. You are telling people that they should sign up to your religion, even if it means cutting off 70% of their market share. If you stood even an inch outside your "web developer" click and looked at the big picture, you'd see how insane you sound.

    But yeah yeah yeah. IHBT and I'll HAND, thanks.

  6. fonts are platform-specific and copyrighted by r00t · · Score: 0, Troll

    You may love the latest stuff shipping with Vista, but it's not on my computer and I'm not going to swipe a copy.

    I don't even have Comic Sans, Ariel, Verdana, Times New Roman, etc.

    I do have fonts. Some of them look kind of nice. You probably don't have them.

  7. cynical, but true by r00t · · Score: 0, Troll

    I often wish for an Open Source browser brave enough to say "screw the W3C, we're going to be IE compatible". I suppose it's OK to leave out the exploitable buffer overflows. I want the rest though.

    Recognize the popular ActiveX controls, providing Open Source substitutes when possible. Feed any remaining ActiveX crap into Wine, with appropriate sandboxing.

    Do the VBscript stuff.

    Do the DirectAnimation stuff.

    Ignore MIME types; they get lost anyway when you save the files. ...and so on, etc., ...

    Being "right" just isn't worth the trouble. This isn't a fight worth fighting.