the next web standards
under development are html 5 and xhtml v2. html 5 is being pushed by browser vendors (do we actually call them browser vendors when most of them don’t even sell their browsers?) and xhtml v2 is being supported by w3c. these two are not official recommendations yet but it looks like they lead into the same direction but the paths taken are different.
there’s more background information from adriaan at ibm developerworks. its a good read if you’re a serious developer.
currently, html 4 and xhtml 1.1 coexist. it would be interesting how the browsers would implement the new standards.
20 January 2008 11:08 pm at 11:08 pm
HTML4 is still pretty much what I use. I’m also sticking to PHP5 and JS1.1, since in practice they’re pretty much foolproof (especially in Dreamweaver, haha). If there’s anything about “web standards” that I’d like to see updated/upgraded or even implemented it would be screen resolution. I know majority of worldwide users still stick to XGA, but with all the laptops and LCD monitors nowadays proliferating at a minimum of 1280×800, man, it makes it difficult to adapt.
What’s your take? Which resolution do you prefer to develop for?
24 January 2008 9:17 pm at 9:17 pm
these days its usually 1024×768. minimum. i can’t remember what site i saw it on (maybe w3c) but it was statistics on what resolution is most used by computers and it came out at 1024×768. i don’t know if that statistic is still valid as of this writing.