Goodbye XHTML, Hello HTML 5
Monday July 6, 2009
The W3C announced last week that they will be stopping work on XHTML 2 in favor of HTML 5. If you don't know what HTML 5 is yet, check out my article What is HTML 5. And if you had been considering HTML 5, now you know the final answer - use it. XHTML will still continue to be supported, but it will be subsumed into HTML 5. In other words, if you have XML documents that need HTML to be written as XML, you would follow the same rules for XHTML, but use HTML 5 tags and attributes.
(Via W3C.)
Yes, I already made the XHTML1 – HTML5 transition on my website and on another project several hours ago, and it took only 5 minutes. If you have a well formed and valid XHTML document, all (or at least most) you need to do is remove most of the doctype declaration and rearrange (and remove) some meta elements. And if you use the traditional elements you won’t have any browser support problems. The W3C validator just issues one warning/note – that you are using an experimental feature. There’s no problem with explicit closing singleton tags, since this HTML version is not SGML-related.
Yeah, I agree with Alexander. Pretty straight forward and basic update. Now off to make the changes!