Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2
The competition to become the next markup language for the Web is heating up. This article takes a look at what’s cool and what’s uncool about the competing technologies.
Bob Piper [February 6th, 2007, 1:08 pm; Permalink]
Peter,
All of this stuff goes completely over my head, but I would like to pick your brains.
My son is about to leave college and wants to do a web design course, preferably by distance learning because he wants to earn some cash too. Any idea what sort of thing he should be looking for, what qualifications are useful etc?
I would appreciate any guidance.
zooplah [February 14th, 2007, 3:36 am; Permalink]
Good article. Personally, I’m pulling for XHTML 2 (hopefully this decade). It’s just cleaner and has a more sound principle of reuse. And as the fastidious perfectionist that I am, I’d root for the strictness of XML any day. I am, however, disenchanted with the legacy baggage.
However, I think the WHAT language is more likely to succeed. It’s closer to what we use now (as sucky as that might be) and I don’t think web authors want to change or broaden their work flow or skills.