XHTML 2.0 is the 802.11a of web standards

January 13, 2003

Mark is right… But it’s worse than he thinks.

Mark wrote: acronym, cite, and q tags are all gone, leaving us, respectively, with abbr, nothing, and nothing. The acronym/abbr thing just means a global search and replace

Of course it’s a bit worse than that, as some browser by the name of IE 6/win can’t even understand ABBR so even if they just dropped ACRONYM for ABBR you lose all your CSS stylings for IE 6/Win.

At last week’s Apple conference, Steve talked about 802.11a as being “doomed” because it wasn’t compatible with 802.11b. 802.11g offers the speed increase of 802.11a with compatibility to 802.11b….

One can only hope that W3C comes out with an XHTML 3.0 that is compatible with XHTML 1.x

  • http://www.mypage.tsn.cc/trats/ Kevin W

    That’s nonsense. IE6/Win doesn’t even support XHTML 2.0.

    And there is no point fretting about something that won’t be around for at least 5 years. If you don’t like the non-backwards-compatibility of XHTML 2, there’s no-one telling you to upgrade your site for it. But I hope the new version will be a fresh start for the bad browser implementations.

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