XHTML
This is extremely disheartening. Mark bitches about Semantic obsolescence in XHTML 2.0:
More specifically, the
acronym
,cite
, andq
tags are all gone, leaving us, respectively, withabbr
, nothing, and nothing. Theacronym
/abbr
thing just means a global search and replace, but the lack ofcite
andq
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?
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