XHTML 2.0

I've been reading about the future XHTML 2.0 standard.

I like some of it, like the <section> and <h> elements because it's closer to the DocBook standard.

But first we have to get more people marking up for true XHTML 1.1, using .xhtml as file extensions and application/xhtml+xml as the MIME type.

XHTML 1.1

I came across a document at the W3C which says:

This document summarizes the best current practice for using various Internet media types for serving various XHTML Family documents. In summary, 'application/xhtml+xml' SHOULD be used for XHTML Family documents, and the use of 'text/html' SHOULD be limited to HTML-compatible XHTML 1.0 documents. 'application/xml' and 'text/xml' MAY also be used, but whenever appropriate, 'application/xhtml+xml' SHOULD be used rather than those generic XML media types.

I should have known...

When I put in the correct MIME type of application/xhtml+xml for the web documents on uwto.org, and renamed the extension to .xhtml, I found that some pages wouldn't display because there were some markup problems and the pages were being processed as true XML, rather than HTML 4 "tag soup".

The thing that keeps me from going totally with XHTML 1.1 right now is another article

which states that Google doesn't have the capability to index .xhtml page yet. This article was created before Google updated its index to capture 8 billion documents, as of November 10, 2004, up from 4 billion.

Rapid Transit

The past year has put rapid transit back on the discussion table in Winnipeg.

Last year Glen Murray was Mayor, and he pushed for BRT which wasn't rapid at all.

Then Glen decided he wanted to go to Federal politics, and ran in the June 2004 election, which he lost.

Sam Katz became the new Mayor of The Big 'Peg, who said that he intends to review the plans for BRT and personally has stated that he prefers LRT instead ... and I truly believe Sam is finally the man to bring rail transit back to us.

First Past The Post

This is my first RSS-based blog post.