Re: xhtml 1.0, xhtml 1.1, html 4.01, or html 5.X? -Guy Macon

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>Guy Macon <http://www.GuyMacon.com/wrote:

>The problem with perhaps over 99% of all flavors of xhtml pages is
>that , even if the code valadates completely, the author then serves
>the page as html. In that case all of the special xhtml code is just
>useless, and one would better write the page as html 4.01 strict

>When you set your server to serve any flavor of xhtml using the proper
>mime type application/xhtml+xml the page is parsed as xml because the
>xml part of xhtml is very strict.

>When you serve xhtml correctly, no IE browser up to and
>including IE7 can view the page. It will be interesting to see if IE8
>on the final release can support application/xhtml+xml.
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>You can serve a page as true xhtml, even 1.1, on most modern browsers
>other than IE. However, if you want IE browsers to view the page you
>have to do some tricks to get something to IE that it can understand.

HTML 5 has solved the above probem.

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>Scripsit Guy Macon <http://www.GuyMacon.com/:
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>Last time I checked, HTML 5 was going strong in creating
>problems and had not solved any.

>Besides, it was an incomplete sketch of a proposed draft. It is
>generally regarded as inappropriate to cite such material except as
>"work in progress".
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>Do you mean the world suddenly changed when I was in the countryside for
>a short time, and without even giving me a due notice? I'd be shocked.

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>Jukka K. Korpela wrote:>
>Tim Berners-Lee seems to like it, as do the authors of the
>Opera web browser...
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>Point well taken. Let me rephrase that:
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>The incomplete sketch of a proposed draft that is commonly
>called "HTML 5" appears to have solved the HTML text/html
>/ XHTML application/xhtml+xml problem by having one
>vocabulary with two serializations. See
>[ http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/html5-is-html-and-xml.html ]
>for more info.
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>References:
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>HTML 5 Draft Recommendation
>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
>http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/
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>New elements in HTML 5
>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-html5/
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>HTML 5 differences from HTML 4
>http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/
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>W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web Content:
>Web Community Forges Next HTML Standard in Public W3C Forum
>http://www.w3.org/2008/02/html5-pressrelease
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>Opera on why HTML 5 is important:
>http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/t...html-5-is-her/
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>Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of HTML) on Reinventing HTM:
>http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166
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>Wikipedia: HTML 5
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5
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>HTML 5 / XHTML 5 vs. XHTML 2
>http://xhtml.com/en/future/x-html-5-versus-xhtml-2/
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>HTML 5, one vocabulary, two serializations
>http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/html5-is-html-and-xml.html
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>Improve your forms using HTML5!
>http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/i...s-using-html5/
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>A List Apart Preview of HTML 5
>http://www.alistapart.com/articles/previewofhtml5
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>Conversation With X/HTML 5 Team
>http://xhtml.com/en/future/conversat...x-html-5-team/
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>Conversation With XHTML 2 Team
>http://xhtml.com/en/future/conversat...-xhtml-2-team/
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>Interview with Opera's Advisory Committee Representative at W3C
>http://www.w3.org/html/planet/
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>HTML 5 or XHTML 2?
>http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/02/0...-5-or-xhtml-2/
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>FAQ: What is HTML 5? When will HTML 5 be finished?
>When will we be able to start using these new features?
>http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_HTML_5.3F
>http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#When...be_finished.3F
>http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#When...ew_features.3F
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>Anne's "Standards Suck" Weblog on HTML 5:
>http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/04/html5
>http://annevankesteren.nl/2006/02/xhtml5
>http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/12/html5-timeline
>http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/04/html5-foreign
>http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/04/custom-data
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>XHTML 2 and HTML 5 - who will win?
>http://me.mywebsight.ws/2007/05/15/x...-who-will-win/
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>The Next Version of XHTML May Be HTML 5
>http://webdevfoundations.blogspot.co...be-html-5.html
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>Why XHTML 5 is a bad name
>http://markmail.org/message/7ajgqvxvqdfbbsgd
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>(X)HTML 5 will have the only usable implementation of ruby markup
>http://blog.whatwg.org/xhtml-5-will-...of-ruby-markup
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>"The Troll Whisperer" <Troll,Whisperer@TrollTech.invalidquoted...
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>But said nothing.

>Maybe we can do without the 'whisperer'?
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>Mind you, this thread is so, er, boring, that maybe he fell asleep mid post?