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By: Posts about Web Standards as of July 9, 2009 | XHTML and CSS

Posts about Web Standards as of July 9, 2009 | XHTML and CSS — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:17:35 +0000

[...] out how to compress information so that they could pack more and more into tiny bit-pipes. x/HTML 5 and the Future of the Web – flyingjaco.net 07/09/2009 So the big news last week was that xHTML 2.0 is dead and x/HTML 5 [...]

By: x/HTML 5 and the Future of the Web | Adobe Tutorials

x/HTML 5 and the Future of the Web | Adobe Tutorials — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:50:38 +0000

[...] So the big news last week was that xHTML 2.0 is dead and x/HTML 5 dropped and from the spec. The biggest kicker being the official euthanasia of xHTML 2. In an article by WebMonkey, they point out that xHTML 2 was pretty much in a coma hooked up to life support (feeding tube and all) More: x/HTML 5 and the Future of the Web [...]

By: Jaco

Jaco — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:17:51 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I edited the post, so the information should be more accurate. I also updated the video section for a little bit more accuracy.

By: emaN

emaN — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:04:29 +0000

You misread the mailing list post w/r/t dropping of audio and video tags. They aren’t being dropped. All that’s being removed is language stating that browsers implementing (x)html5 must support certain audio and video codecs. This does put the audio and video tags in a somewhat precarious position as to just how portable they’ll be, but they still exist.

By: x/HTML 5 and the Future of the Web | Adobe Tutorials

x/HTML 5 and the Future of the Web | Adobe Tutorials — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:36:48 +0000

[...] So the big news last week was that xHTML 2.0 is dead and x/HTML 5 dropped and from the spec. The biggest kicker being the official euthanasia of xHTML 2 Read the rest here: x/HTML 5 and the Future of the Web [...]