2007-10-19: First Public Working Draft of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the XHTML2 Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing. RDFa attributes can be used with languages such as HTML and XHTML to express structured data. RDFa allows terms from multiple independently-developed vocabularies to be freely intermixed. This document has parsing rules for those creating an RDFa parser as well as guidelines for users in organizations who wish to use RDFa. For those who would like start using RDFa, the RDFa Primer is an introduction to its use and shows real-world examples.
2007-10-05: Last Call: XHTML Role
Attribute Module. The XHTML2 Working Group has released a Last Call
Working Draft of XHTML Role Attribute
Module. With the role attribute, authors can annotate XML
languages with machine-readable semantic information about the purpose of
elements. Use cases include accessibility, device adaptation, server-side
processing and complex data description. The attribute can be integrated into
any markup language based on XHTML
Modularization.
2007-07-13: XHTML Basic 1.1 Is a Candidate Recommendation We are pleased to announce the advancement of XHTML Basic 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. The specification adds four new features for small devices which are the language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence of the XHTML Basic 1.0 W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XHTML Mobile profile. Implementation feedback is welcome through 31 August.
7 March 2007: XHTML2 Working Group created. The XHTML2 Working Group was chartered today with the mission of fulfilling the promise of XML for applying XHTML to a wide variety of platforms with proper attention paid to internationalization, accessibility, device-independence, usability and document structuring. The group will provide an essential piece for supporting rich Web content that combines XHTML with other W3C work on areas such as math, scalable vector graphics, synchronized multimedia, and forms, in cooperation with other Working Groups.
26 September 2006: XHTML-Print Is a W3C Recommendation. Today the World Web Consortium released XHTML-Print as a W3C Recommendation. Designed for printing from mobile and low-cost devices, the XHTML-Print page description format satisfies print and display needs in the absence of a printer-specific driver and where variability in the formatting of the output is expected and is acceptable. The work is based on XHTML-Print written by the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the IEEE-ISTO.
26 July 2006: The HTML Working Group has released the eighth public Working Draft of XHTML™ 2.0. A general purpose markup language without presentation elements, XHTML 2 is designed for representing documents for a wide range of purposes across the Web. See the introduction for the differences between XHTML versions 1 and 2. Much of XHTML 2 works in existing browsers. The draft includes an implementation in RELAX NG with DTD and XML Schema implementations to follow.
25 July 2006: The HTML Working Group has released the First Public Working
Draft of the XHTML Role Attribute
Module to provide the ability to integrate the role
attribute into any markup language based on XHTML™ Modularization
1.1. Developed in conjunction with the accessibility community and other
groups, the document is the first of a series of XHTML modules designed to
help extend the scope of XHTML-family markup languages into new environments.
5 July 2006: The HTML Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML™ Modularization 1.1. This modularization allows the subsets and extensions to XHTML needed for emerging platforms. This document is based on Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema and the Modularization of XHTML W3C Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 4 August.
5 July 2006: The HTML Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML™ Basic 1.1. The draft adds four new features for small devices which are the language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence of the XHTML Basic 1.0 W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XHTML Mobile profile. Comments are welcome through 4 August.
9 June 2006: The HTML Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XHTML™ Basic 1.1. The draft adds four new features for small devices which are the language's primary users. Version 1.1 is intended to be the convergence of the XHTML Basic 1.0 W3C Recommendation for mobile devices, released in coordination with the WAP Forum in 2000, and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XHTML Mobile profile.
17 May 2006: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated Working Draft of the RDFa Primer 1.0. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML™ 2.0 specification.
14 March 2006: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer 1.0. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML™ 2.0 specification. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules.
13 February 2006: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XHTML™ Modularization 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation. This modularization allows the subsets and extensions to XHTML needed for emerging platforms. This document is based on Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema and the Modularization of XHTML W3C Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 6 March.
31 January 2006: The XHTML-Print specification has been published as a Proposed Recommendation. XHTML-Print is designed to be appropriate for printing from mobile devices to low-cost printers that might not have a full-page buffer and that generally print from top-to-bottom and left-to-right with the paper in a portrait orientation. XHTML-Print is also targeted at printing in environments where it is not feasible or desirable to install a printer-specific driver and where some variability in the formatting of the output is acceptable.
27 January 2006: "The future is XHTML 2.0" — News report on IBM Developerworks article about XHTML2.
28 November 2005: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 implements the
XHTML2 role attribute, particularly for accessibility use.
12 October 2005: The second public Working Draft of XFrames has been published. XFrames is an XML application for composing documents together, replacing HTML Frames. Formal issues and error reports on this specification shall be submitted to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
27 May 2005: The seventh public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0 has been published. Formal issues and error reports on this specification shall be submitted to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
31 January 2005: X-Smiles 0.93 has been released, which includes preliminary support for XHTML 2.0.
22 July 2004: The sixth public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0 has been published. Please send your feedback to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
21 July 2004: HTML and XHTML Frequently Answered Questions and XML Events for HTML Authors are now available.
26 April 2004: The first public release of the test suite for XHTML-Print is now available. Please send comments to www-html-testsuite@w3.org (archive).
18 February 2004: A Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML 1.0 - Second Edition, a revision of the W3C Recommendation Modularization of XHTML, has been published for community review. This document clarifies and makes corrections based on nearly three years of use by the community. It also incorporated an implementation of the abstract modules using XML Schemas, previously published as Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema. The HTML WG expects to advance this specification to Proposed Edited Recommendation after incorporating feedback on this Working Draft. Please send error reports to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
20 January 2004: The XHTML-Print specification has been published as a Candidate Recommendation. XHTML-Print is designed to be appropriate for printing from mobile devices to low-cost printers that might not have a full-page buffer and that generally print from top-to-bottom and left-to-right with the paper in a portrait orientation. XHTML-Print is also targeted at printing in environments where it is not feasible or desirable to install a printer-specific driver and where some variability in the formatting of the output is acceptable. Please send implementation feedback to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
14 October 2003: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XML Events specification as a Recommendation. The XML Events module defined in this specification provides XML languages with the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with DOM2 event interfaces. The specification has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by industry.
3 October 2003: The second Last Call Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema has been published. It is being re-submitted for Last Call because of substantial changes in the way the Schemas are implemented to ease their use in non-XHTML context. The Last Call review period ends 14 November 2003. Please send Last Call comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
23 September 2003: W3C Launched the HTML Patent Advisory Group (PAG) to study issues for HTML-related specifications raised by the US court case of Eolas v. Microsoft and US Patent 5,838,906. Public discussion takes place on the public-web-plugins mailing list. The FAQ on US Patent 5,838,906 and the W3C is available.
4 August 2003: The XML Events specification has been published as a Proposed Recommendation. Based on the feedback from implementers during the Candidate Recommendation period, now that the HTML Working Group believes that the specification is stable and ready for the Advisory Committee review. The Proposed Recommendation review period ends on 2 September 2003.
29 July 2003: The first public Working Draft of XHTML-Print has been published and entered the Last Call review period, which ends on 7 September 2003. XHTML-Print is member of the family of XHTML languages defined by the Modularization of XHTML. It is designed to be appropriate for printing from mobile devices to low-cost printers that might not have a full-page buffer and that generally print from top-to-bottom and left-to-right with the paper in a portrait orientation. XHTML-Print is also targeted at printing in environments where it is not feasible or desirable to install a printer-specific driver and where some variability in the formatting of the output is acceptable. Please send Last Call comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
30 May 2003: A non-exhaustive list of recent online articles is now available. If you find more articles not listed there, please let the maintainer know.
6 May 2003: The fifth public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0 has been published. This version includes an early implementation of XHTML 2.0 in RELAX NG. Please send your feedback to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
7 February 2003: The XML Events specification has been published as a Candidate Recommendation. This means that the HTML Working Group considers the specification to be stable and encourages implementation and comment on the specification during this period. The Candidate Recommendation review period is estimated to end on 5 March 2003. Please send review comments before that date to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
5 February 2003: The first draft of a test suite for HTML 4.01 is now available. This release should not be considered complete. Feedback should be sent to www-html-testsuite@w3.org (archive). The HTML4 Test Suite is an effort of the World Wide Web Consortium based on a contribution from Microsoft on behalf of Microsoft Corporation, Openwave Systems Inc. and America Online Inc.
31 January 2003: The fourth public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0 has been published. Please send your comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
18 December 2002: The third public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0 has been published. This draft fixes some production errors found in the second public Working Draft, and does not reflect any major changes from that draft. Please send your comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
11 December 2002: The second public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0 has been published. The HTML Working Group thanks the community for sending a lot of comments on the first draft published in August 2002. While not all of those comments are reflected in the second draft, the Working Group is actively working on resolving those issues. Please send your comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
9 December 2002: The Last Call Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema has been published. The Last Call period ends 31 January 2003. Please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
13 September 2002: The first Working Draft of HLink has been published. HLink provides XHTML Family members with the ability to specify which attributes of elements represent hyperlinks, and how those hyperlinks should be traversed, and extends XLink use to a wider class of languages than those restricted to the syntactic style allowed by XLink. This is an early draft, and is guaranteed to change; please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
3 September 2002: XHTML 1.0 in XML Schema has been published as a Note. This document provides informative XML Schemas for XHTML 1.0. These Schemas are still work in progress, please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
23 August 2002: The HTML Working Group has been rechartered for two years to complete remaining work items. Please refer to the updated roadmap to see expected time line for each deliverable.
15 August 2002: The third public Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema has been published. The HTML WG believes that this document is becoming stable, and expects to advance this document to Last Call with the next public draft. Please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
12 August 2002: An updated Working Draft of XML Events, that incorporates comments received during Last Call, has been published. The HTML WG expects that this document will soon move into Candidate Recommendation status. Please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
9 August 2002: The second public Working Draft of an XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile has been published. This draft added new mechanism to use subset profiles easily (see changes). Please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
6 August 2002: The first public Working Draft of XFrames has been published. XFrames is an XML application for composing documents together, replacing HTML Frames. This document is still in early stage, please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
5 August 2002: The first public Working Draft of XHTML 2.0 has been published. XHTML 2.0 is a next generation markup language, intended for rich, portable web-based applications. Note that while the ancestry of XHTML 2 comes from HTML 4, XHTML 1.0, and XHTML 1.1, it is not intended to be backward compatible with its earlier versions. Also, this first draft does not include the implementations of XHTML 2.0 in either DTD or XML Schema form yet. Those will be included in subsequent versions, once the contents of this language stabilizes. Please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
1 August 2002: XHTML 1.0 Second Edition has been published as a Recommendation. This second edition is not a new version of XHTML 1.0 (first published 26 January 2000). The changes in this document reflect corrections applied as a result of comments submitted by the community and as a result of ongoing work within the HTML Working Group. The XHTML Media Types Note has also been updated with minor fixes.
30 April 2002: The first public Working Draft of an XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile has been published. An XHTML+MathML+SVG profile is a profile that combines XHTML 1.1, MathML 2.0 and SVG 1.1 together. This profile enables mixing XHTML, MathML and SVG in the same document using XML namespaces mechanism, while allowing validation of such a mixed-namespace document. This document has been jointly published by the HTML Working Group and the SVG Working Group.
30 April 2002: The XHTML Media Types Note has been published. This document summarizes the best current practice for using various Internet media types for serving various XHTML Family documents.
6 February 2002: The 'application/xhtml+xml' media type registration is now complete, published as RFC 3236. This document defines the 'application/xhtml+xml' media type for XHTML based markup languages; it is not intended to obsolete any previous IETF documents, in particular RFC 2854 which registers 'text/html'.
21 January 2002: X-Smiles 0.5 has been released, which has full implementation of the XML Events Last Call Working Draft and partial support for XHTML Basic.
19 December 2001: An updated Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema has been published. This document describes a methodology for the modularization of XHTML using XML Schema.
26 October 2001: X-Smiles 0.45 has been released, which has an experimental support for XML Events.
26 October 2001: The XML Events Working Draft has been published as a Last Call Working Draft. The Last Call review period ends on 30 November 2001. Please send review comments before the review period ends to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
16 October 2001: The XML Events Working Draft has been published. This specification was renamed from XHTML Events, with significant changes. The XML Events module defined in this specification provides XML languages with the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces. The result is to provide an interoperable way of associating behaviors with document-level markup.
4 October 2001: XHTML 1.0 Second Edition has been published as a Working Draft. This second edition is not a new version of XHTML 1.0 (first published 26 January 2000). The changes in this document reflect corrections applied as a result of comments submitted by the community and as a result of ongoing work within the HTML Working Group. It is released as a W3C Working Draft to gather public feedback before its final release as a W3C Recommendation. The review period for this Working Draft is 4 weeks ending 1 November 2001.
27 September 2001: Last Call has been issued for the 'application/xhtml+xml' media type registration. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send any comments to the iesg@ietf.org or ietf@ietf.org (archive) mailing lists by 26 October 2001.
25 September 2001: An updated Internet Draft of the 'application/xhtml+xml' media type registration has been published. Please send comments to www-html@w3.org (archive).
1 August 2001: A tutorial on XHTML Modules and Markup Languages is now available. This tutorial explains how to create XHTML Family modules and markup languages, based on Modularization of XHTML.
8 June 2001: The third draft of the XHTML Events specification has been published. The XHTML Events module provides XHTML host languages the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces. The result is to provide XHTML based languages an interoperable way of associating behaviors with document-level markup. In addition, this specification defines a subset of the XHTML Events module called basic events for use on simpler client devices. Finally, the XHTML Event Types Module defines the XHTML language event types.
31 May 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the publication of XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML as a W3C Recommendation, together with Ruby Annotation. The specifications are stable, and have been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor their adoption by industry. XHTML 1.1 is a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict based on XHTML modules, including the ruby module. Ruby is a short run of text alongside base text typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or annotation. Read the press release and testimonials.
30 April 2001: An updated Internet Draft of the 'application/xhtml+xml' media type registration has been published. This document defines the 'application/xhtml+xml' MIME media type for XHTML based markup languages; it is not intended to obsolete any previous IETF documents, in particular RFC 2854 which registers 'text/html'. Note that while the revision number still says -01, this is the third draft which should have been numbered as -02. Please send comments to www-html@w3.org (archive).
10 April 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the publication of Modularization of XHTML as a W3C Recommendation. The specification is stable, and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favors its adoption by academic, industry, and research communities. The Recommendation extends XHTML's reach onto emerging Web platforms like mobile devices, television, and appliances. Read the press release and testimonials.
6 April 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XHTML 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation. The specification defines a new XHTML document type that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in Modularization of XHTML. This document type is essentially a cleaned-up version of XHTML 1.0 Strict using XHTML Modules, with the addition of ruby annotation markup. Proposed Recommendation period lasts until 7 May.
22 March 2001: The first public Working Draft of Modularization of XHTML in XML Schema has been published. The draft provides a complete set of XML Schema modules for XHTML, and a framework for extending and modifying XHTML. Please send comments to www-html-editor@w3.org (archive).
21 March 2001: Numerous industry leaders in the mobile communications and content industries have announced that they are supporting XHTML as the format for the future evolution of mobile services. The companies also expressed their intention to develop products, content, and services based on XHTML. Read Nokia's press release for more details. Also check the XHTML Phone Demo.
23 February 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Modularization of XHTML to Proposed Recommendation. The specification subsets XHTML and extends XHTML's reach onto emerging platforms like mobile devices, television, and appliances. Proposed Recommendation period lasts until 22 March.
8 February 2001: An updated Internet Draft of the 'application/xhtml+xml' media type registration has been published. This document defines the 'application/xhtml+xml' MIME media type for XHTML based markup languages; it is not intended to obsolete any previous IETF documents, in particular RFC 2854 which registers 'text/html'. Please send comments to www-html@w3.org (archive).
19 December 2000: XHTML Basic has been published as a W3C Recommendation. The specification is stable, and has been reviewed by the W3C membership, who favor its adoption by the industry. XHTML Basic content can be shared across desktop computers, TVs, PDAs, pagers, and mobile phones. Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, said, "XHTML Basic offers the simplicity and wide interoperability of early versions of HTML and reflects ten years of Web experience, including advances in XML and accessibility." Read the press release and testimonials.
8 November 2000: Updated HTML Working Group Roadmap is available now. This describes the timeline for deliverables of the HTML Working Group. It used to be a W3C NOTE but has now been moved to the MarkUp area for easier maintenance, and it will be updated more frequently.
3 November 2000: W3C is pleased to announce advancement of XHTML Basic to Proposed Recommendation. XHTML Basic provides an extensible XHTML document type that is rich enough for simple content authoring that can be shared across devices from desktop computers to TVs, PDAs, pagers, and mobile phones. Please send comments to the addresses given in the Status of this Document section by 3 December.
28 August 2000: The second draft for the XHTML Events spec. This specification defines the XHTML Event Module, a module that provides XHTML host languages with the ability to uniformly integrate behaviors with Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces. This specification also defines the XHTML Basic Event Module, a module which subsets the XHTML Event Module for simpler applications and simpler client devices, and the XHTML Event Types Module, a module defining XHTML language event types.