XHTML

January 13th, 2003 12:06 PM

This is extremely disheartening. Mark bitches about Semantic obsolescence in XHTML 2.0:

More specifically, the acronym, cite, and q tags are all gone, leaving us, respectively, with abbr, nothing, and nothing. The acronym/abbr thing just means a global search and replace, but the lack of cite and q make my posts by citation and posts by quotation semantically obsolete.

I bought into every argument the W3C made that keeping up with standards, validating, and using semantic markup now would somehow “future-proof” my site and provide some mystical “forward compatibility”. How about some fucking payoff now? How about some fucking compatibility?

Final conclusion: “I’m migrating to HTML 4.”

Indeed. This does seem like a step in the wrong direction for the W3C. It’s even better, though: acronym, cite, and q are gone, but h1 .. h6 remain. wtf?

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Comments

On the theme of travel, I got confirmation yesterday that I am going to Brussels. So now you can come visit Europe too.

Posted by: Leo on January 20th, 2003 4:59 PM