Thanks guys, reading those

caffinephil — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:37:39 +0000

Thanks guys, reading those posts and article has just made a few thigns click.

Cheers

The W3C definition for XHTML

webwiz — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:08:50 +0000

The W3C definition for XHTML 1.0 is "A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0". In other words, XHTML is HTML. All the rules for HTML apply, and typically browsers treat it as HTML. Most modern browsers can also process well-formed XHTML as XML, but, as Megan notes, Microsoft has no plans to support this.

You can be sure that HTML is here to stay for a long time to come. As the article Megan links to notes, HTML 5 is backward compatible with HTML 4, so you don't need to re-write your pages for HTML 5.

At the moment, the proposed new version of XHTML, XHTML 2.0, looks like it will not be backward compatible. We shall see - the standards for XHTML 2.0 are not nearly as close to acceptance as HTML 5.

Bottom line - Whether you choose XHTML or HTML today is unlikely to affect your web pages tomorrow. They should still work okay (especially if they are valid ).

Here's a good

Megan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:25:30 +0000

Here's a good article:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-html5/

Because of the lack of adoption of xhtml I think they've decided to continue with both xhtml and html for the time being. IE still has no plans to support xhtml properly.