XHTML 2, a technology intended to build a more powerful Web from the ground up, met a quiet end last week, spotlighting the difficulties of standardization in a fast-moving Internet.

“HTML5 is the language of Web pages,” said Ian Jacobs, W3C representative. XHTML was spawned in the late 1990s, when some thought XML represented the future of formats on the Web, said Jacobs.

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For instance, the W3C’s new XHTML v2 standard works to further establish the separation between content and presentation, whereas the WHATWG ’s HTML v5 approach investigated how HTML is used ...

XHTML 2 Dies a Lonely Death, Makes Room For HTML 5 The web’s governing body has taken XHTML 2.0 off life support.