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[DeadlyLintRoller]

Hello everyone, I've been a DF fan for a while now, but haven't been active on the forums for a long time. I have a general question. I am working to develop my talents as a web development/programming/IT Professional, I can get into my background what I know and what I am pursuing later, but I've come here with a very specific question.

I noticed that W3Schools no longer lists XHTML as a tutorial topic from their home page. It's still available, but you have to search for it. Does this mean that XHTML has been bastardized it as a viable standard in favor of the newer, hipper HTML5? Would it look poorly on someone for listing it on their resume? I haven't gotten around to learning HTML5 yet as I have plenty on my plate at the moment.

It did come out in 2000, so is XHTML now a leper in internet standards?

[vidyabro]

saying you know xhtml shows you've been around for a while and know what youre doing, so in no way is it a bad thing.

and yeah, w3schools did that in place of html5. xhtml can still be used -- as far as i know its still the same thing as html5, just with less features. make sure to use the !DOCTYPE HTML for html5 instead of the older transitional/strict doctypes if you wanna get in the mood.

just so you know, html5 isnt officially a standard yet and browsers are still working on supporting it so you've got some time to catch up.

[Thief^]

xhtml has been largely ignored, because a lot of the problems it was trying to solve (consistent rendering rules) were also addressed in HTML5, which also actually added features that people are now using.

[Nadaka]

XHTML 2 lost the war against the abomination "standard" of HTML 5. I was on the loosing side of that war. I had a handful of XHTML 2 authoring tools that I had been working on during the design phase that will now never see the light of day. HTML 5 won because it took all the not entirely compatible, backwards, not quite right behavior everyone had to hack together to get shit working and made that behavior the new standard. HTML 5 isn't a standard, it is an anti-standard blinged up cause "hey dude, I got a <video>!", completely ignoring the fact that XHTML had methods for embedded video as well. No, I am not bitter.

[DeadlyLintRoller]

Sorry about your defeats in the web standard wars. But I take it the answer is yes, XHTML has gone the way of acid wash jeans and I should brush up on HTML5 to add it on my resume so employers don't think I've been living under a rock for the past few years?

[Thief^]

Can't hurt.