Posted by cwdjrxyz on 05/19/07 00:47

On May 18, 4:52 am, UKuser <spiderc...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Does anyone know the timetable for XHTML2 and if its due out anytime
> soon?

The information about what is likely in xhtml2 indicates that it will
be greatly different in many ways from existing xhtml or html. So far
as I know, no current browser is ready for many of these changes. Thus
full usage of xhtml 2 will not be possible until browser makers make
great modifications in their browsers. Consider that no IE browser
supports xhtml at all if it is served properly as application/xhtml
+xml. True, one often can serve as text/html. However in this case you
might as well use html 4.02 strict, because the xhtml page gets parsed
as html and not xml. When served properly, an xhtml capable browser
parses the page as xml, and this is extremely strict. Only one tiny
error may mean you see an error message rather than the web page. If
history is any indication, even if xhtml 2 became official today, it
could be many years before most browsers support it fully - especially
IE.

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