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--- eg-259:xhtml [2012/01/20 15:17] – [Frames] eechris
+++ eg-259:xhtml [2012/02/01 20:18] (current) – [Reasons to use XHTML, rather than HTML] eechris
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 ===== Origins and Evolution of HTML =====
-  * HTML was defined with SGML
+  * There is a comprehensive History of the evolution of HTML in this Wikipedia article: [[wp>HTML#History|HTML -- History]].
-  * Original intent of HTML: General layout of documents that could be displayed by a wide variety of computers
+  * Mark Pilgrim gives a very readable account of the road to HTML5 in [[http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html|Dive Into HTML5 -- How Did We Get Here?]]
-  * Recent versions:
-    * HTML 4.0 -- 1997
-    * HTML 4.01 -- 1999
-    * XHTML 1.0 -- 2000
-    * XHTML 1.1 -- 2001
-    * [[eg-259:html5|XHTML 2.0 and HTML 5]] -- under development (in 2008)
-    * Development of XHTML 2 ceased in 2010. HTML5 became mainstream in 2011.
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+===== Reasons to use the XHTML syntax rather than HTML =====
-//**More about the versions**//
-  * HTML 4.0 -- 1997
-         * Introduced many new features and deprecated
-         many older features
-    * HTML 4.01 -- 1999
-         * A cleanup of 4.0
-    * XHTML 1.0 -- 2000
-         * Just 4.01 defined using XML, instead of SGML
-    * XHTML 1.1 -- 2001
-         * Modularized 1.0, and drops frames
-         * We'll stick to 1.1 and avoid frames
-    * XHTML 2 and HTML 5 -- under development as of 2008, some browser support planned for Firefox 3.1
-===== Reasons to use XHTML, rather than HTML =====
   * HTML has lax syntax rules, leading to sloppy and sometimes ambiguous documents
   * HTML processors do not even enforce the few syntax rule that do exist in HTML
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   * [[eg-259:xhtml|The Structural Layer]]
   * [[eg-259:css|The Presentation Layer]]
-  * [[eg-259:html5|XHTML 2 and HTML 5]]
+  * [[eg-259:html5|XHTML 2 and HTML5]]
   * [[eg-259:css3|CSS 3]]