Brett Patterson wrote:
From the few recent posts, I have become so far confused, as anyone would as to why, Gunlaug, you keep stating xHTML5 or as above you say XHTML5? HTML and xHTML/XHTML are different. xHTML is XHTML, albeit 1.0 or 1.1 or 2.0 etc. So, is it a typo?
No typo, but I understand the confusion. We may call it 'HTML5', '(x)HTML5', 'xHTML5' or 'HTML5 + XML serialization', as the 'HTML5' drafts in existence to date cover both HTML and XHTML as two flavors, or rather "serializations", of the same markup language. See: <http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/html5-is-html-and-xml.html> <http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/> Keep in mind that we're reading drafts, so nothing is set in stone, and won't be for years to come. Gives us a good indication of how they're continuing, and smoothing, the relationship between 'HTML' and XHTML that began with 'HTML4' and 'XHTML1.0' though. To exemplify: one can in most cases just change doctype and a meta, and serve a valid and tested XHTML1.0 Strict document... <http://www.gunlaug.no/html5-demo.html> ...as valid HTML5 (text/html)... <http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunlaug.no%2Fhtml5-demo.html&showsource=yes> ...or as valid XHTML5 (application/xhtml+xml)... <http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunlaug.no%2Fhtml5-demo.xhtml&showsource=yes> Note which validator I use - <http://html5.validator.nu/>, as the experimental W3C HTML5 validator won't play ball yet. I can't judge which one is more correct on every detail than the other, as both validators are new and experimental and will be tuned to spec in time. Thus, I may have to make minor adjustments to how I modify my old markup, once the dust settles around xHTML5 :-) Unless they introduce major changes to the specs, the syntactic differences are not creating any real problems for us who serve valid XHTML1.0 as 'text/html' and/or 'application/xhtml+xml' today. Only one or two HTML4/XHTML1.0 elements are "signaled to be" deprecated in xHTML5, so that's not a problem. Serving a document as 'text/html' vs. as 'application/xhtml+xml' does of course introduce potential problems in other areas, but nothing really new for the average document there either. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
