Via Zeldman I learn that the W3C’s XHTML working group is shutting up shop at the end of the year.
What does this mean for XHTML? In terms of standards, XHTML 2.0 is dead, and the only games in town are now the XHTML 1.x family and the XHTML syntax of HTML 5.
Which in practical terms means almost nothing at all. XHTML 2 wasn’t gaining any support form browsers, authors or advocates. It wasn’t backwards compatible, progress was glacially slow and nobody was talking about it. It was already dead. This move is just the W3C accepting reality.
I rather like the cheeky way that Mark says it in song.