On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
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).
So... I must move my money from the XHTML bank to the HTML 5 bank? MediaWiki seems to output XHTML just now, that it all seems the very best option now. What? will mediawiki evolve to HTML5?
Also, another HTML? why? the idea of "broken code must render anyway" is riped. It must die, a painfull dead, because is the father and mother of the tag soup, that is more vile than the Borg and Microsoft *combined*