Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/02/07 12:32

Scripsit Robert Jones:

> Which should I focus on keeping track of?

Which of what? Confused questions indicate confused minds, and the best
approach is to ask whether you are asking the right questions at all.

> As far as I can tell each
> has features that I like but neither has all of them.

Are you designing a browser expected to become popular in the late
2010s, or do you intend to design web pages? In the former case, HTML
drafts might be of some interest to you.

> I know how to
> make use of XML namespaces,

That's rather irrelevant to web authoring at present and in the next few
years.

> but both the XML variant of HTML5 and
> XHTML2 occupy the same namespace as far as I can tell.

Excuse me while I yawn.

> I know that both are working drafts

You're exaggerating their status, using common misleading words. They
are really discussion documents aimed at creating sketches for drafts.

> but it would probably be a good idea to keep
> track of at least one of them.

What makes you think so?

In practical authoring, pay attention to what common browsers actually
do, but do not violate the official specifications unless you really
know what you are doing, and do not expect any behavior not mandates in
those specifications to be permanent. Don't believe people who claim
that HTML 5 helps you in this approach.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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