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HTML5 Killed XHTML2 (and the Mysterious Future of Markup)
It's late 2009. A deep silence runs through the hallowed halls of the W3C. I slip into a stairwell and watch through the window as the well-formed corpse of XHTML2 is wheeled slowly down the hall by hooded academics. Murder? Suicide? A million thoughts run through my mind even as my gut tells me the truth: It's HTML5 that's done in XHTML2. The evidence, I can show you. But what are the reasons for this shocking - some even say tragic - crime?
Come visit Molly as she shines a bright light into the shadowy corners of HTML5's future mission and how XHTML2 ended up dead before it even really began its life.
About Molly Holzschlag
Having achieved a modicum of balance after her midlife crisis, Molly decided to finally get a job. She is now a Web Evangelist focusing on developer relations for the upstart Norwegian browser company, Opera Software.
Earlier in life, Molly avoided a regular job including those silly start-up ventures and chose instead to write a lot of books and articles and stuff on Web standards, and talk a lot about them, too. She now avoids the former, while the latter is an ongoing inevitability.
To learn more about Molly and her work, you can check out her blog at http://molly.com/ or interact with her on Twitter @mollydotcom. Better yet, come have a chat F2F at RWX Fort Lauderdale 2010!
