RE: [WSG] XHTML Basic 1.0

[Mark Stanton]

Yer... XHTML Basic - the only time I've seen it used is in DENG
(http://claus.packts.net/deng/, http://mozquito.markuplanguage.net/).
Basically this is a light weight browser written in Flash. It supports CSS1
 2, SVG, XForms, XFrames and XHTML Basic.

So why basic  not strict or transitional - I guess these guys weren't keen
to have to support all the features of XHTML when people only really use
about 30% of it. The emphasis in DENG is that its very light weight - so
this kind of makes sense. Basic is there to cater to this type of scenario.

Cheers

Mark


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Re: [WSG] XHTML Basic 1.0

[John Allsopp]

Peter,

In looking for some other stuff on W3, I stumbled across this page http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/ 
 
The DTD is  -//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN
 
Anyone had anything to do with this? I hadn't heard of it at all (maybe I'm ignorant and should spend more time trawling the W3 site).

We have supported it in Style Master since 2000 :-)

One of the beauties of XHTML was/is that it was modularised

As with CSS from 3 on, rather than being a monolithic standard XHTML was broken into smaller subsets, so that each could be developed independently of other chunks.

XHTML Basic, as you are probably no aware, is a subset of XHTML, devised particularly for lightweight devices.

I believe XHTML Basic + CSS Mobile Profile (a small subset of CSS) were supposed to be astandards basd way of replacing WAPML (or whatever WAPs htmlish markup language was)

HTH,

john

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