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Hi Chris Burdess When I write: "The perspective is not that HTML5 is deprecated in the long run and that XHTML5 will take over one day. The perspective is rather, that we finish off even the lip service about the XHTML5 track next time around. Who cares, no one is using it." It is only a provocation to make a point. The HTML5 spec makers find it very important to be backward compatible. We can be pretty sure that the XML track will remain in the spec also in the future. You are right in saying that "Nobody is using HTML5 either really" in the strict sense of validation. But as a matter fact any webpage ever made, served with "text/html" is today a HTML5 page except that it might have one or more validation errors. You don't have XML pages with well-formedness errors. If you use "application/xhtml+xml" you get a nice web page or an error message. There is no such thing as XML with a few well-formedness errors. The important thing is that more than 99% of web pages use HTML parsing. Probably also more than 99% of new web pages. For that reason you can not blame some HTML5 spec makers that they are a little tired of the XML track in the HTML5 spec. You also point to an interesting fact, that browsers are today also browsers in smartphones, tablets, etc. My 5 years old Nokia N80 supported "application/xhtml+xml" and my iPhone 4 renders XML webpages incrementally. But that is not that interesting. It is pretty easy to set up mimetype switching in your server-side script, I do it where I have the URL rewriting. The title of the this thread is "Has HTML5 saved XHTML?". An even better title would probably be: "Has HTML5 given XHTML a second chance?". Cheers Jesper Tverskov http://www.xmlplease.com
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