The web’s governing body has taken XHTML 2.0 off life support. The World Wide Web Consortium, the group charged with overseeing the languages that power the web, has decided not to renew the charter of the XHTML2 working group, which is set to expire at the end of 2009.
Quick, web developers, the sky is falling — panic!
Actually, the sky is just fine. In fact, it’s considerably clearer than it used to be, and there’s certainly no reason to panic overthe death of XHTML 2.0. The supposed successor to XHTML 1.x and the markup language that was once hailed as the next evolutionary step for the web has for all intents and purposes been dead for years. All the W3C has done is give it a proper headstone. And with the burial complete, the W3C can put all its efforts into the real future of the web — HTML 5.
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