More Mark on XHTML 2

2003-04-16T22:10:17Z 2003-04-16T22:10:17Z More Mark on XHTML 2 2003-04-16T22:10:17Z

Mark Pilgrim <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/04/16/im_not_even_supposed_to_be_here_today.html">links</a> to his latest <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/16/dive-into.html">Dive into XML column</a> on <acronym title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</acronym> at XML.com. I’m still not sold on the value of this spec, and the prospect of a <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0303a.shtml#objectx">non-user-writable HTML</a> is bothersome to say the least as a html-helper-mode junkie, but at least some of it, including the <l> and <nl> elements, seem to be useful ideas. However, I’d personally prefer more focus on getting CSS3 finished and implemented—at least <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a>, <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a> (and by extension <a href="http://www.konqueror.org/">Konqueror</a>, since it’s also based on KHTML) are going in the right direction, although I’ve had to back out a few of my CSS hacks because Safari seems to have regressed in its handling of them (since <code>text-transform: lowercase</code> now works while <code>font-variant: small-caps</code> doesn’t, even though the latter can legally be implemented simply by mapping the content back to uppercase—even IE does that much). http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/394 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=394