Although the failed effort may have been a work of "philosophical purity," it was overshadowed by HTML 5. Why are Web standards so darned hard to create? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has halted work on the second version of the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), and has instead redirected its energies to the next version, HTML 5.

From where I'm standing it doesn't seem to be possible to mix XHTML and PHP.<BR><BR>Thus far I've just been using mixing basic HTML and PHP together and everyone is happy. However I'm starting in on ...