On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Ah, but XHTML is going the way of the dodo -- XHTML
2.0 is a magnificent
flop that nobody's touching with a 100-foot pole.
For future-proofing we should pay more attention to the HTML 5 working
group stuff.
HTML5 has removed the name attribute of <a> elements, as far as I can
see. It will probably end up requiring implementers to support it but
prohibiting authors from using it -- that's their solution to
backward-compatibility cruft (which is a lot better than the XHTML one
of pretending no web pages from 1995 still exist and/or having a
two-tier system where everyone ignores the Strict tier).