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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. XHTML merged by werfu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They should have never created XHTML. They should have XMLized HTML in the first place. But, XHTML has corrected many wrong thing that HTML developpers used to do. Now, HTML5 should simply pick up the best of both world while still being XML compliant.

  2. Re:Good by Reaperducer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Imagine a compiler that would eat any typo. Missing brackets, braces, semicolons, object-function separators, completely meaningless semantic messes. HTML4 browsers eat it all.

    So, what you're saying is that the computer works for people instead of the other way around?

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