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XHTML 2 Cancelled

Posted by timothy on from the that-html-5-he's-so-hot-right-now dept.

Jake Lazaroff writes "According to the W3 News Archive, the charter for the XHTML2 Working Group — set to expire on December 31st, 2009 — will not be renewed. What does this mean? XHTML2 will never be a W3C recommendation, so get on the HTML 5 bandwagon now. According to the XHTML FAQ, however, the W3C does 'plan for the XML serialization of HTML to remain compatible with XML.' Looks like with HTML 5, we'll get the best of both worlds."

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  1. Good by orta · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know a lot of web developers who dont know the difference between XHTML and HTML, and I hear XHTML as a buzzword all the time. The less confusion the better in my opinion. The HMTL5 spec is quite readable,but if you've not taken a stab at working with HTML5 (it runs all browsers) yet this article should be pretty useful: http://www.phpguru.org/static/html5

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  2. Re:XHTML merged by RaceProUK · · Score: 5, Informative

    They should have XMLized HTML in the first place.

    They did. It's called XHTML.

    Unless you mean XML-ise HTML 3.2 or earlier, but I believe XML didn't exist back then.

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  3. Sounds like a few people are confused... by MassacrE · · Score: 5, Informative

    XHTML 1 was the XML-ization of the existing HTML 4 stuff.

    XHTML 2 was a new HTML version that sought to remove lots of HTML cruft (including non-XML syntax) and add new capabilities. Basically, it was working toward a new HTML version. This effort has died, because browser makers are not behind it - they are all behind HTML 5.

    HTML 5 has always had an XML profile called XHTML 5, and that won't go away.