Changes in HTML 5

caffinephil posted this at 11:14 — 5th March 2008.

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Does anyone have a brief overview of the changes that will occur in HTML 5. Is HTML going to be about for much longer as I understood that it will be replaced by XHTML?

Megan posted this at 14:25 — 5th March 2008.

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Here's a good article:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-html5/

Because of the lack of adoption of xhtml I think they've decided to continue with both xhtml and html for the time being. IE still has no plans to support xhtml properly.

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webwiz posted this at 23:08 — 5th March 2008.

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The W3C definition for XHTML 1.0 is "A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0". In other words, XHTML is HTML. All the rules for HTML apply, and typically browsers treat it as HTML. Most modern browsers can also process well-formed XHTML as XML, but, as Megan notes, Microsoft has no plans to support this.

You can be sure that HTML is here to stay for a long time to come. As the article Megan links to notes, HTML 5 is backward compatible with HTML 4, so you don't need to re-write your pages for HTML 5.

At the moment, the proposed new version of XHTML, XHTML 2.0, looks like it will not be backward compatible. We shall see - the standards for XHTML 2.0 are not nearly as close to acceptance as HTML 5.

Bottom line - Whether you choose XHTML or HTML today is unlikely to affect your web pages tomorrow. They should still work okay (especially if they are valid ).

Cordially, David
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caffinephil posted this at 10:37 — 6th March 2008.

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Thanks guys, reading those posts and article has just made a few thigns click.

Cheers