Comments on: World Wide Web Consortium releases draft of HTML 5

A major upgrade of HTML is in the works but won't emerge for at least two years.

[The_Decider]

What is the point?

XHTML 1.0 was supposed to be HTML 5.

[Imalittleteapot]

Yeah. Sure

That's what I thought. However, everyone keeps saying that HTML and XHTML are two different things. Way it to make easy for people right?

I think XHTML just confused the average Joe. It's little bitty thing that opens a window into this massive big thing called XML that only programmers really need.

So apparently it was back to the drawing board with HTML all over. Maybe this is the way they always meant it to be though. Maybe XHTML was just a way to represent HTML in an XML environment. Who knows? It's like they went out of their way to make it more complicated than it needed to be.

[Sentinel]

XHTML added no new features

Even though XHTML was supposed to replace HTML, it was obvious from the start that it wouldn't. XHTML is simply "pretty" HTML. Perhaps the best way to describe it "HTML the way it should be written", because the only thing "new" about it was that it required that all tags have a corresponding end tag. The other feature, the ability to embed other XML dialects and namespaces into XHTML have been greatly overlooked and very few people that I know of have taken advantage of it (not to mention the browser's incapability of rendering non-XHTML tags). Take MathML for example. MathML simplifies the rendering of math equations on Web Pages by using simple XML tags. However, as far as I know only Firefox can display them, and then you need a plugin from the Mozilla website to be able to. Why use such an unknown technique, when you can simply use static images for equations, or perhaps a Flash based solution?

That being said, a new version of HTML at this point is an unnecessary publicity stunt. The fact that the drafters are the big companies that make the browsers doesn't help either. I can't help but wonder what new "feaures" this new version will include to limit user's ability to control what they see (will they remove the possibilty of annoying ads, or will they add more ways to do it?) and to protect the interests of the big media companies (will it limit our ability to download MP3s or other media from the Web?). Everything nowawadays since to have those same goals in mind: to restrict the consumer so that big money-grubber's interests are protected.

[James_coock]

Its very good new, i want this changes.
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