Re: does it really exist any xhtml 2?

"Gianni Rondinini" wrote:

> ok, joking apart, i don't understand what i'm missing and what's wrong
> with all the above. i'd like to move to xhtml 2.0 *before* having
> written dozens of pages, if it's advisable to, or to know and
> understand why it is advisable *not* to, and, if the latter, why w3
> prepared 32 pages of docs for xhtml 1 and 241 for xhtml 2?

What you downloaded was probably the public workihng draft for XHTML 2.0

This is not an internet standard yet, and even when it does become an
internet standard, it will be a long time before everybody starts using web
browsers that know anything about it.

In fact, there are still lots of browsers out there that know little or
nothing about XHTML 1.0, so in you're better off sticking with HTML 4.01
strict -- it's accepted by almost every browser in existence, and it
probably does everything you need. So why bother using anything else?

It's all very well trying to keep up with the latest trends, but look at it
this way: if you wanted to drive round the world, would you choose a car
that runs on unleaded petrol, or a car that runs on the latest hydrogen fuel
cells? Obviously you would choose the petrol engine, because there are
hardly any filling stations that can recharge a hydrogen fuel cell.

The same applies to web browsers -- use the latest technology if you must,
but don't expect the rest of the world to keep up.

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