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    Hey, just thought I'd throw a question out there, since I've been reading a lot recently about both HTML 5 and XHTML 2. Mostly from Eric Meyer and Sitepoint, but there's a lot of discussion floating around there.

    Just wondering, what's the point of HTML 5; I thought XHTML was supposed to replace HTML?

    I guess I'm just confused as to if there is any real difference between the two. I don't understand why they're being worked on separately...

    Let the discussion begin!
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2008 edited by gnome on the 16th July 2008 at 20:44:25 EDT
     
    Some people are don't ever want SGML to die. Neither standard is what the web needs. XHTML 2 is too dramatic for actual implementation (despite being otherwise pretty good), and HTML5 uses tags wrong (poor semantics); There was a good article about it over at A List Apart.

    My prophecy: the web is at least 20 years away from a solid web standard which will last any notable length of time (Something which is a finished product in an of itself, not merely a step in the ongoing evolution of information architecture).
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    <body>
    <header>...</header>
    <nav>...</nav>
    <article>
    <section>
    ...
    </section>
    </article>
    <aside>...</aside>
    <footer>...</footer>
    </body>
    if i was going to do that i would just make my webpage in XML.
    That is a terrible idea.
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeJul 17th 2008 edited by gnome on the 17th July 2008 at 20:03:18 EDT
     
    Conner: making your page in XML (backed by an XHTML/XSLT/CSS system) isn't a bad plan. Blizzard does it, and the result is gorgeous.
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    i noticed that they did that.
    • CommentAuthorpapab30
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2008
     
    Have you ever tried to write an XSLT by hand. Probably one of the nastiest things to try to do. Not what I would say as a good way to create a website by hand.
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      CommentAuthorgnome
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2008
     
    papab30: on a large site it can be worth it.

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