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The Debate

There’s been a great deal of debate since the W3C announced that the XHTML 2 Working Group [is] Expected to Stop Work [at the] End of 2009 to focus resources on the development of HTML 5. It’s a debate all web designers and developers should familiarise themselves with.

Mr Zeldman’s recent articles XHTML DOA WTF and In Defense of Web Developers are a useful point of entry into the (often heated) discussion. Both articles are well worth reading, in particular the lengthy discussion they generate in the comments.

The future of HTML 5 (and how XHTML fits within that future) will affect most designers and developers working on the web today, consequently it pays to keep abreast of developments. Watch this space for an easy-to-parse roundup of the discussion which we’ll be posting in the next few days.

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