- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 07:57:40 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> - XHTML is the natural evolution of HTML4 XHTML/1.0 is a dead end and only makes sense if you have a lot of legacy HTML 4.0 material that you now want to prepare for use in a multiple namespace environment. XHTML/1.1 is also considered a dead end, although it is really what you have to change your XHTML/1.0 into before you start adding other namespaces. XHTML/2.0 is the future of XHTML and is quite different from HTML4. The industry seems to be moving towards HTML5, a non-XML, web applications oriented, extension of HTML4, and that may well be the real evolutionary path for HTML4, although it is unlikely to be good for accessibility. My advice would be to use HTML 4.01, unless you need XML features, in which case you won't be able to support IE. If you prefer to make all opening and closing tags mandatory, validate against a modified DTD.
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