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jkd
08-06-2002, 08:06 AM
In working draft forum that is:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml2-20020805/

Another interesting spec dealing with the issue of serving XHTML documents:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20020801/
Alex Vincent
08-07-2002, 03:34 AM
Looks like they're taking HTML forms out completely and replacing them with XForms... that should be interesting indeed.
jkd
08-07-2002, 04:23 AM
Hmmm, I really should get around to reading the XForms specs sometime... this might provide enough motivation too.
La Gal
08-13-2002, 12:04 AM
As I understand it, from scanning through that first link jkd provided, XHTML 2 will not be backward compatible. For instance <br /> will be deprecated and <line></line> will take its place.

And, instead of:
<img src="/images/bork.gif" alt="This is Bork!" />

we could use:
<object data="/images/bork.gif" type="image/gif">
This is Bork!
</object>

I'm curious - if we use the <line></line> as a sub-paragraph (as suggested in the draft), if it were a very long line would it wrap, or would it cause a horizontal scrollbar to appear? I'm assuming it will wrap. In other words, I think the <line> must start a new line, and the </line> ends a line (preventing anything else on that line), but that the text between the tags will still wrap as normal.
jkd
08-13-2002, 02:58 AM
Check out <nl> for some more fun too ;).

http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xhtml2-20020805/mod-list.html#edef_list_nl

Completely replaces DHTML menu scripts. :)
Alex Vincent
08-13-2002, 03:23 AM
Yep, XHTML 2.0 breaks from backwards-compatibility entirely.

Also, you can fuggedaboudit when it comes to doing frames in XHTML. There's a new W3C WD for "XFrames".