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• 28 Sep 11
  

  Isidro Vila Verde

  Parece um pouco enviesado para o HTML5 mas é uma opinião

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• 10 Mar 11
  

  Miguel Sanchez

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• 13 Feb 11
  

  Yasir Albehzad

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• 01 Nov 10
  

  desbest

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• 04 Jun 10
  

  Oa Berg

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• 21 Jun 09
  

  Jorge Islas

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• 14 Jan 09
  

  Jaemi K

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• 08 Jun 08
  

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• 29 May 08
  

  Paul Merrell

  The browser-centric view of why HTML5 is better than XHTML2. Notice that the entire discussion does not address the need for interoperable data exchange between different web applications, let alone for their interaction with more traditional desktop or mobile device editors. HTML5 is enormously under-specified for data exchange among anything but web browsers. As only one small example, neither HTML5 nor CSS Selectors have a specified standard element for footnotes and footnote calls, let alone attributes for their numbering style, formatting, and location. And even if CSS Selectors included such elements and attributes, CSS lives in web site page templates, not in the web app editors for site content that use HTML forms. Easy pickings for Microsoft and its proprietary stack that does interoperably integrate the desktop, servers, devices, and the Web.

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• 27 May 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  great article walking through the history of HTML, XHTML, and browsers. Summary is that HTML5 is the future. Good thinking, great arguments.

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  • The fact that Internet Explorer doesn’t really support XHTML as XML in any way, and the problems XML can cause when not all tools in the authoring chain are XML tools, means that there has been little incentive for using XML on the web. This is compounded by search engines not indexing XHTML as XML documents; very few XHTML authoring tools for XML; very few CMS or blogging tools supporting XML correctly all the way from input through database to generation; and very few ad suppliers supporting XML. 

     

     There is a little incentive if you want to allow MathML, SVG, and other XML applications to be interspersed inline in XHTML documents, but this use of XHTML as XML has found a very limited audience. 

     

    XHTML2 is XML

     

     And therein lies the biggest problem. On top of all the concerns that web developers have about using XML for serving documents, XHTML2 adds another layer of complexity. It isn’t HTML 4.01 reformulated as XML; it’s a different but similar language, with added, removed, or modified semantics for many elements, and added or changed element vocabulary for many semantics. In many cases, the changes are steps in the right direction, but at the same time, XHTML2 was not built with web developers in mind. As an example, it doesn’t at all address the deficiencies of HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 in the areas of interactivity, local storage, or script interactions. 
• 27 Mar 08
  

  Avdi Grimm

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• 21 Mar 08
  

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• 28 Jan 08
  

  Marcio Barrios

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• 13 Jul 07
  

  William Watson

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• 11 Jul 07
  

  Eddie VanArsdall

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• 04 Jul 07
  

  Juan Flores

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• 25 Jun 07
  

  Bruno Dulcetti

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• 23 May 07
  

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• 15 May 07
  

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• 09 May 07
  

  Brennan O'Keefe

  The next generation of these technologies is arriving, and they are worth keeping an eye on. These technologies will affect everyone in the business.

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• 07 May 07
  

  Kaustubh Srikanth

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• 03 May 07
  

  Andreas Krohn

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• 29 Apr 07
  

  Yuen Chi Lian

  The near future of the Web.

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• 24 Apr 07
  

  Scott Thompson

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• 21 Apr 07
  

  Kevin Ridgway

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• 20 Apr 07
  

  mario64

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• 18 Apr 07
  

  Heikki Wilenius

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• 17 Apr 07
  

  Rik Eberhardt

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• 16 Apr 07
  

  Renato Albano

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  Andre Malheiro

  Turning an HTML 4.01 document into HTML5 is in most cases just a question of replacing the DOCTYPE declaration. Many of the new HTML5 features can be emulated using JavaScript for browsers that don’t support them, allowing for a gradual change.

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• 15 Apr 07
  

  ratbeard

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  • While XHTML2 is a semantic improvement over XHTML 1.0, it does not seem likely that it will matter for web developers for a long time, especially when one considers that Internet Explorer still doesn’t offer XHTML 1.0 support.
• 14 Apr 07
  

  Luke Lee

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  Guy Carberry

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  Dan Connolly

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• 13 Apr 07
  

  Sérgio Carvalho

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• 12 Apr 07
  

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  Ariadne Gomes

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  indigo11

  While XHTML2 is a semantic improvement over XHTML 1.0, it does not seem likely that it will matter for web developers for a long time, especially when one considers that Internet Explorer still doesn’t offer XHTML 1.0 support.

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  Chris Read

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  Marshall Jones

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• 11 Apr 07
  

  Kelly Bauer

  As workers on the web today, we are dealing with many technologies that have been stable for a long time. While HTML 4.01 is formally an SGML-based document format, the only clients actually treating HTML that way are validators. Browsers, on the other ha

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  Antoine van Dinter

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  Emlio Olivares

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  Sunny Ripert

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  HASSANI Faycal

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  Ben Gilmore

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  hwasung

  "HTML5 will be the future of the web, so my advice would be to pay close attention to it."

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  Michael Fitzhugh

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  Joe Crawford

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• 10 Apr 07
  

  Kazuhito Kidachi

  結論としては"HTML5 will be the future of the web, so my advice would be to pay close attention to it."らしい。XHTML2と比べれば実際そうだろうけど、新HTMLにどこまで取り込まれるか？

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  Michael Barrish

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  a77ila

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  Useful article - gets to grips with the convoluted world of HTML standards.

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  Jimmy Nordlund

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  ratbeard on 2007-04-15
  Article about the future technologies that will form the backbone of the web, including:
  

  • XHTML 1.0  - IE handles xml documents as HTML, providing no advantage to delivering content in XHTML.
  • HTML5 - In development by the WHATWG, which is comprised of 3 of the 4 major browser vendors (guess which one is missing).  It seeks to define error-handeling for HTML parsers, so that browsers can handle ill-formed HTML in a consistant way.  Also adds many things developers have been wanting, such as persistent storage, form validation, the canvas tag, etc.  Backwards compatible, and likely to be the  standard to adopt.
    
  • XHTML 2.0 - currently in development by the W3C, corrects some of the problems of XHTML, but unlikely to see adoption for many years, due to the fact that:

  1. Poor support from Microsoft,
     
  2. Not backwards compatable with HTML or XHTML 1 - it uses an entirely different namespace. 
     
  3. Its not focused on developers like HTML5 is.
     

  
  

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