What the cat says, goes
After some pretty thorough studying of the XHTML 2.0 working draft and after reading Hixie's thoughts on the matter I have come to the conclusion that, despite Mark's earlier tantrum on the issue, and my initial misgivings, XHTML 2 looks like a vast improvement over the current XHTML and HTML specs.
My personal favourites are as follows:
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The new
<section>and<h>elements. The ability to actually mark up the sections of the document properly rather than having to say "well it's the bit between that<h2>and that other one" is much better and somewhat more like the way LaTeX does it. -
Paragraphs (
<p>) will be able to contain lists, blockquotes, pre's and tables as well as inline text. This means for example, that this very list could be contained within the paragraph above (My personal favourites are as follows:
) which would make more sense structurally. -
The
<nl>element looks interesting and potentially very useful for making site navigation menus.
This is by no means a complete list of the good things about it. Those were just the things that really caught my attention.
I still have concerns about the ease of making the transition to XHTML 2 though. The early adopters (like myself - I fully intend to start using it the day after the final spec rolls out) are the ones who are going to "get it", since we'll have to provide XHTML 2 and legacy versions of the same documents until everyone's browsers support it (ie. till about 2023). This will be considerably more difficult than providing XHTML 1.1 and HTML 4 versions of the same document like I'm doing now, because of the large amount of structural changes that will be needed (specifically with regard to the <section> and <h> elements). Yes, I know no-one's forcing me to use XHTML 2 (just like no-one's forcing me to use XHTML 1.1 now), but I'm afraid that's just the way I am...
Posted: 2003-01-15 14:32:49 UTC by Xiven | Cross-references (1) | Comments (0)
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