Comments on: XHTML5? http://www.flifnotes.com/16-xhtml5/ Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:51:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lachlan Hunt http://www.flifnotes.com/16-xhtml5/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Lachlan Hunt Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:22:06 +0000 http://www.flifnotes.com/16-xhtml5/#comment-2 HTML5 is being designed to be compatible with both HTML and XHTML. They are just two different serialisations of the same language. http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/#the-html-and-xhtml-syntax I don't understand what problem you have with HTML5 continuing to use the namespace from XHTML 1.0. That is the namespace that browsers support already and for technical reasons, it makes sense for both them and, therefore, us to continue using it. HTML5 is being designed to be compatible with both HTML and XHTML. They are just two different serialisations of the same language.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/#the-html-and-xhtml-syntax

I don’t understand what problem you have with HTML5 continuing to use the namespace from XHTML 1.0. That is the namespace that browsers support already and for technical reasons, it makes sense for both them and, therefore, us to continue using it.

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