XHTML 1.0 is the bridge between old style HTML, now too useless to use, and the new XML web. XHTML 2.0 is the next step, but is there a cause for concern in a line in the XHTML 2.0 specification?
“I’m really hesitant over the line in the new spec (v2) that reads, ‘While the ancestry of XHTML 2 comes from HTML 4, XHTML 1.0, and XHTML 1.1, it is not intended to be backward compatible with its earlier versions,’” Frances Currit-Dhaseleer, a technical trainer and Webmaster in Colorado Springs, said.
But, on a more positive note…
“HTML is dead,” said Uttam Narsu, an analyst with the Giga Information Group. “Web developers have to accept this and move on to XHTML.”
Along those lines, XHTML 2.0 offers a trio of new capabilities that may entice Web developers to start making the switch before they absolutely have to.
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