XHTML 1.1
Saturday 4th December, 2004 23:04 Comments: 0
What's the differece between XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1? Well I decided to change the doctype of the new index page to XHTML 1.1 and it only complained about one bit. It used to have xml:lang="en" lang="en" but apparently the lang element has been removed in favour of xml:lang - so I was already there with the xml:lang support, to make my page XHTML 1.1 compliant I just had to remove a bit of code!
So what else is different? I expected it to be something big between XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1, but apparently not. That's one of just 3 changes listed so far in the W3C Recommendation, along with replacing name with id for anchor tags and image maps (still no official word on target support, you have to add that in as a module, but allowing anyone to add anything as a module sounds like a bad idea to me), and something called Ruby (short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation).
So what else is different? I expected it to be something big between XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1, but apparently not. That's one of just 3 changes listed so far in the W3C Recommendation, along with replacing name with id for anchor tags and image maps (still no official word on target support, you have to add that in as a module, but allowing anyone to add anything as a module sounds like a bad idea to me), and something called Ruby (short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation).