Just wondering, why does OS still use xhtml instead of html5?

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amistre64 · Answer

its easier to spell?

poopsiedoodle · Answer

w0t

parthkohli · Answer

>Just wondering, why does OS still use xhtml instead of html5?

implying that the devs are logical ones

poopsiedoodle · Answer

well I mean they could at least try to keep up

thesmartone · Answer

Maybe that is another reason why we are updating the site? :P

poopsiedoodle · Answer

I mean, xhtml hasn't been updated since 1999.

jaynator495 · Answer

Using that... that could very well be the cause of some of this lag LOL
Considering html5 is faster (or at least i would assume...)

nobrainiachere · Answer

*Mind blown*

eclipsedstar · Answer

I did hear from somewhere that html5 is somewhat faster.

anonymous · Answer

because its not to bad as is but html5 isnt much faster just a little

omarbirjas · Answer

I didn't even know they were using xhml.....god....no wonder this website has problems....

e.mccormick · Answer

Define the differences between the two... because you will be surprised by what you lean if you think xhtml is worse than html5.  In truth, xhtml is stricter.  Also, most of the improvements in html5 are not actually improvements in html5.  They are in other technologies... which you can still use with xhtml... oops.  So, if you are not using the new features that are specific to the HTML parts the language, they are the same.

davidusa · Answer

Wut???

e.mccormick · Answer

Well David, as to "Wut???"  I can only guess you are asking what I mean.

The biggest "improvement" that is directly in HTML5 is that XHTML is very highly structured and demands precision.  That was done because HTML4 sites had gotten pretty messy.  HTML5 decided to remove that requirement and let developers be more free again.  So in that respect, it goes backwards.

Why is this an improvement when you remove a new feature?  Because it is easier for people to do the work when they are not so tightly constrained by the structure.  It also makes it a lot easier to learn.  However, it does not improve the speed or performance at all.  And, if your development team already knows how to work well within the tighter structure, it is not an improvement at all.

Now, there are some new aspects to the HTML parts of HTML5 that are supposed to help.  However, the jury is still out on if they really do help as much as they were touted to.  This is pretty typical of newer technologies.  The person that develops them is going to say they are amazing.  You don't know the truth until later... and since much of the "new" in HTML5 is really things like improvements in JavaScript that you can also use in XHTML, it seems to many that  HTML5's claim to performance fame is not justified.

Now, I am not saying that  HTML5 is bad.  I am just saying that wild claims that converting the site to HTML5 would fix everything are not well founded.