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Posted by Sherm Pendley on 04/21/07 06:16
Neo Geshel <gotcha@geshel.org> writes:
> HTML is a dead end. It is no longer being extended or enhanced; there
> will never be an HTML 5.0. Wikipedia: “HTML 4.01 and ISO/IEC
> 15445:2000 are the most recent and final versions of HTML.”
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html)
Wikipedia doesn't define HTML; the W3C does that. OK, technically the
W3C issues proposals, and it's up to the IETF to ISO approve (or not)
them as standards, but in practice most everyone treats the latest W3C
proposal as a de facto standard.
The W3C has more or less openly admitted that XHTML is too ambitious
and poorly supported, and they've chartered a new HTML working group
a little over a month ago:
<http://www.w3.org/html/>
The group's charter states that both "classic" and XML syntax will be
supported. That statement, and the formation of the working group in the
first place, is a clear admission that browser support for XHTML is not
as far along as the W3C had hoped it would be by now.
> The future is all about XHTML
Probably, but the browsers people are using right now have non-trivial
problems with it.
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