si-blog
the web log of Simon Jessey
Tuesday, January 14th, 2003
Markup madness
Mark Pilgrim has sparked an
interesting debate about version 2.0 of
XHTML by
commenting on some of the
W3C's wackier decisions. Removal of the
acronym and br elements, and the alteration of q to
quote, along with the introduction of new structural elements like
section and line (which may end up as l, which I think
is stupid) have annoyed Mark so much that he has migrated back to
HTML 4.01 and given up on
XHTML completely. The debate I speak
of is currently raging on the www-html
mailing list after a
post made by Tantek Çelik, and is currently spreading over blogland
as well. Personally, I am unlikely to make use of
XHTML 2.0 in its current form. It will
be years before it even comes close to browser support, and the old flavors of markup will still
be around.
Update: Mark justifies his migration back to the earlier standard, but now he feels a bit stuck.
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