Comments on: Sample XHTML2 code http://www.last-child.com/sample-xhtml2-code/ CSS Toys for Professional Web Developers Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:21:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Niko Neugebauer http://www.last-child.com/sample-xhtml2-code/#comment-8895 Niko Neugebauer Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:15:40 +0000 http://www.last-child.com/sample-xhtml2-code/#comment-8895 I think that the W3C's effort of continuing working on 2 standards in parallel is quite doomed. The XHTML2 idea is something that i believe, will never get to the real life, it is way too abstract, and has way too many requirements. No web or intranet developer would survive if he had to maintain 100% standards compliance, it is just a good thought, but in the next 10-15 years, it is out of the reach. I am full of expectations of the new W3C working group working on the HTML5 & XHTML5 standard, which will be based (hopefully) on the WHAT-WG specifications. I agree that HTML5 should be the next natural evolution of the HTML 4.01, since even after all these years (XHTML was published 1999 if i am not mistaken), the most developers are still ignoring XHTML. Even if we progress to the XHTML, since there are a lot of good reasons, the next evolution pass should be inclusion of more required elements, and not just XML-zation of already existing standard from the 90s. I think that the W3C’s effort of continuing working on 2 standards in parallel is quite doomed.
The XHTML2 idea is something that i believe, will never get to the real life, it is way too abstract, and has way too many requirements. No web or intranet developer would survive if he had to maintain 100% standards compliance, it is just a good thought, but in the next 10-15 years, it is out of the reach.
I am full of expectations of the new W3C working group working on the HTML5 & XHTML5 standard, which will be based (hopefully) on the WHAT-WG specifications. I agree that HTML5 should be the next natural evolution of the HTML 4.01, since even after all these years (XHTML was published 1999 if i am not mistaken), the most developers are still ignoring XHTML. Even if we progress to the XHTML, since there are a lot of good reasons, the next evolution pass should be inclusion of more required elements, and not just XML-zation of already existing standard from the 90s.

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