Comments on: XHTML 2 and HTML 5 – who will win?

By: Xjs

Xjs — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:52:55 +0000

XHTML 2 is visionary and brings an end to the aaaancient HTML traditions. I would really love to use it. Yet, I still have to, and hate having to tell my Apaches and web applications to serve sites as text/html if the client is an IE one… This is a never-ending story, I presume.

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By: Michael Buckley

Michael Buckley — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:01:55 +0000

But the thing is there is no real reason to use XHTML right now, besides the name spaces and how really uses them? I have heard there is almost no one working on the XHTML 2 spec right now, so do you think I am going to move in that direction? No!

Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of XHTML. Just no one uses it right. The amount of sites calming to be XHTML valid, that are very invalid is not funny, it is being used so wrongly. Most of my HTML is closer to XHTML.

By: Arjen

Arjen — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:05:01 +0000

Well this is a intresting discussion but i have to agree with Jason and mpt
Thit world ain’t ideal and i have more problems with lazy web authors then making layouts work in XHTML
so i use just html and make it as good as i can

By: Jason Cole

Jason Cole — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:53:35 +0000

I am well aware that I am serving XHTML 1.1 as text/html. XHTML is a more strict language, and if the entire web was XHTML (served as application/xhtml), browsers would be easier to write, with no ‘guessing’ about proper syntax.

By: mattur

mattur — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:59:33 +0000

> “Iâ€™ll use XHTML 1.1 until XHTML 2 is supported by Firefox, Opera and Safari”

Browser support for XHTML2 is pencilled in for shortly after hell freezes over. It’s a dead as a dodo. Everything you’ve been told is wrong, it’s time to update your worldview.

(And in accordance with prophecy, you’re serving XHTML1.1 as text/html. One day you’ll thank me for pointing this out.)

By: Jason Cole

Jason Cole — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:39:18 +0000

I’ll use XHTML 1.1 until XHTML 2 is supported by Firefox, Opera and Safari (The only browsers that matter). Remember: with IE, we are still waiting for full CSS2 support…

By: LobsterMan

LobsterMan — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:22:31 +0000

Thank you, i enjoyed it equally. They’re obviously 2 ides to this coin, and this whole subject is pretty damn interesting.

By: mpt

mpt — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:15:15 +0000

If (X)HTML 5 is about not being too hard for authors who are too lazy to use XHTML 2, then the English language is about not being too hard for authors who are too lazy to use Esperanto.

Thank you for this interesting discussion.

By: LobsterMan

LobsterMan — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:09:51 +0000

Well, mainly that XHTML 2 is visionary, and (X)HTML 5 is about doing what’s possible with browser limitations, and not being to hard for lazy content authors.
Some day the web will need to move beyond old HTML, and XHTML 2 is a huge leap forward.