Comments on: XHTML 1.0 vs. HTML 4.01 (or HTML 5)?

By: XHTML2 subsumed under HTML5 « Freddy

XHTML2 subsumed under HTML5 « Freddy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:05:29 +0000

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By: Current Events: The Official End to XHTML - Monday By Noon

Current Events: The Official End to XHTML - Monday By Noon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:43:58 +0000

[...] XHTML 1.0 vs. HTML 4.01 (or HTML 5)? [...]

By: Michel

Michel — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:39:06 +0000

@kl:

My knowledge of HTML 5 is still incomplete… :)

So I was taking a closer look only at HTML, and in HTML, you can leave some tags open and you can use quotes for attributes (or not, that’s your choice) — basically, HTML will allow you to write less strict code than XHTML.

And I am not yet sure that XHTML 1 will have its equivalent as XHTML 5 (at least, the ’standard’ variant that we are used to, when you serve code as text/html, because of older versions of IE…). This worries me a little bit, as I prefer all tags closed and everything strict and semantic in my HTML…

By: kl

kl — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:39:28 +0000

You forget that HTML 5 uses XML too (it defines both HTML-based and XML-based version, you choose which one you want).

By: Michel

Michel — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:47:47 +0000

@taotsu-pro:

My only concern is valid, nicely formatted code. HTML is a bit loose for me, as a standard — that’s why I prefer XHTML, which forces me to close all open tags, to have all attributes in quotes, etc. I hope that XHTML 5 will be an option for us, and that we could still serve it as text/html (because of IE7 and below, of course)! :-)

By: taotsu-pro

taotsu-pro — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:08:23 +0000

its a bit late to comment on that now that (x~)html 5 is in favour, but i totally agree, xhtml code is nicer (and at least for me) easier to write. well, lets hope that html 5 will at least come soon, be good and unleash css 3 full support for the rest of the web! (IE?! ^-^)