On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Brion Vibber brion@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).