XHTML is Dead, Long Live XHTML
So the W3C has officially ceased work on the next iteration of the XHTML
standard, abandoning it in favour of the new and shiny HTML 5. I have some
mixed opinions on this, since the simplifying purist in me likes the
consistency and rigour provided by XHTML, but HTML 5 appeals to my more
pragmatic instincts. HTML 5 also has support for a slew of nice semantic tags,
like <section>, <article>,
<header> and <footer>, which should make
it easier and cleaner to style documents according to their content, and do
away with the ubiquitous <div id="blogpost"> constructs
that currently make up most sites.
