W3C Issues XHTML 1.0 Recommendation

By Loath January 26, 2000 1:30 PM

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The World Wide Web Consortium Thursday released the XHTML 1.0 specification as a W3C Recommendation.?This specification indicates cross-industry and expert community agreement on the importance and benefits of XHTML 1.0 "as a bridge to the Web of the future." Until this point, HTML has served as the basis for publishing hypertext on the Web.?The future of the Web, the W3C believes, is written in W3C's Extensible Markup Language (XML).?XML is an environment that better meets the needs of all its participants,enabling developers to create structured data that can be easily processed and manipulated to meet the varying needs of end-users and their devices.?In creating XHTML, the W3C HTML Working Group faced a number of challenges, including one that could influence the future of the Web.?The challenge included how to design the next generation language for Web documents without obsoleting what's already on the Web, and how to create a markup language that supports device-independence.?The answer was in XML, and the first result is XHTML 1.0.?Read more...

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