Next-Generation HTML on Its Way

Next-Generation HTML on Its Way

Written By
Timothy Dyck
Timothy Dyck
Sep 9, 2002
1 minute read
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Last month, the W3C published the first public working draft of the next generation of HTML, XHTML 2.0. (Never mind that XHTML 1.0 hasnt caught on yet.)

XHTML 2.0 uses the same modular structure defined in XHTML Modularization 1.0, so small devices can support just a subset of XHTML, but it introduces big changes in tag syntax. It deprecates the ubiquitous
and tags in favor of a new element and a generalization of . It includes a new element for building hierarchical navigation lists, a generic header tag that allows for nested document sections (the writing is on the wall for

to

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