Re: XHTML, or HTML 5

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Daniel
O'Connor<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, Helgi, this is probably aimed at you more than anyone else, but:
>
> Swapping pear back to xhtml rather than html5 - thoughts, objections, ideas?
>
> My main reasons:
>
> I can do neat things with RDFa
> XHTML is stable
> If there's benefits to HTML5, we aren't using them yet as far as I can see,
> and a lot of the spec seems very much in flux.
>
> The downsides, obviously: xhtml strict + rdfa = hard to maintain, a lot of
> effort, etc.
>
> What were the selling points of HTML 5 for you? What have I missed?

Go read about HTML5 - The doctype for it will force all browsers to go
into standards mode, it's simple, XHTML is dying, no one cares about
RDFa nor does a site have to be XHTML for it (RDFa and fellows) to
work.

That's how I see it - Do as you wish, it won't be my headache
maintenance wise ;-)

- Helgi