This semester I am in a web programming class. We are going to learn XHTML. For now I assume that XHTML is HTML adhering to XML standards. A quick scan of my textbook seems to indicate you can just add three lines to your HTML document to make it an XHTL one. We shall see.It was exciting to see XHTML in the news recently. Well it was exciting until I found that we are about to see the end of XHTML 2. The W3C has decided to pursue HTML 5 instead. I am not sure if this means XHTML in general is dead, or if it is specific to the XHTML 2 specification.
I have head that HTML 5 is not all that exciting. It is a means to combat the rise of competing technologies such as Silverlight and Flash. Apparently Internet Explorer is not supporting all of HTML 5 features. That's a bit of a concern, as I think IE still leads the browser market. Perhaps Microsoft wants to push Silverlight at the expense of their browser. I will check back later when I learn more XHTML in class.
