Yesterday the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) published the first public working draft for the next revision of the HTML standard, HTML 5.
HTML 5 is backwards compatible with HTML 4 and XHTML 1, but will no longer support some of the SGML elements of HTML 4. In addition to HTML syntax, HTML 5 will support XML syntax. The changes are numerous, but of particular interest are some of the attributes that have been eliminated altogether. Particularly affected will be those that are using nested tables in their design.
The first public working draft for HTML 4 was announced on July 8, 1997, making yesterday’s announcement the first move toward a major revision change in almost 11 years. HTML 5 is still down the road a bit, but using strict HTML and XHTML markup now will help you make an easier transition when the HTML 5 standard is final.
