{"id":161,"date":"2003-01-15T21:41:30-05:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-16T05:41:30+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=161"},"modified":"2003-01-15T21:41:30-05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-16T05:41:30+00:00","slug":"xhtml2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2003\/01\/15\/xhtml2\/","title":{"rendered":"XHTML2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not that anyone cares what I think, but I had a lot of the same thoughts as Ian Hickson<\/cite><\/a> and Dorothea Salo<\/cite><\/a> when I read the first draft XHTML 2.0 specification<\/a> a few months ago. Eric Meyer<\/cite><\/a> is broadly sympathetic<\/q> with several<\/a> of its<\/a> detractors<\/a> (and I’ve seen even more<\/a>), but points out that you can use XSLT to bridge the gap between old browsers and new ones<\/q>. In fact, that’s just what Sjoerd Visscher<\/cite><\/a> did five months ago, after showing<\/a> that current browsers can already deal with a lot of XHTML2 through stylesheets and binding technologies like HTCs or XBL<\/q>.<\/p>\n\n

Right now XHTML2 is a science experiment, just like publishing a weblog in RSS with embedded HTML<\/span> (instead of the other way around, published as a separate page). It’s changeable, and changing; it’s been in the works already for more than two years<\/a>, and will be for at least two more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Ian points out, correctly, that [the] fact that xHTML2 won’t be widely used before the end of the decade is not a problem. For some reason, the Internet populous has this strange idea that if something isn’t adopted overnight, it must be a failure.<\/q> Perhaps eventually I’ll think it’s a pain in the ass with no demonstrable benefit<\/cite><\/a> (NB: I realize that’s a comment on XHTML 1.1, not XHTML 2). But for now I haven’t made up my mind.<\/p><\/div>

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