I am building a mobile app (hybrid mobile web app but with a native shell) with most users on the iphone (some on the blackberry) and am wondering if it should be written in html5 or xhtml?
Any insight would be great.
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My understanding is that neither the iPhone nor the Blackberry fully support HTML 5 yet. So unless you need some specific HTML 5 features I would stick with XHTML.
ctford
2009-09-21 17:49:28
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HTML5 and XHTML are not exclusive choices. You can use both at once (XHTML 5) or you can use neither (HTML 4).
I wouldn't author documents to [X]HTML5 yet as the standard is not yet finished, never mind any implementations. The “HTML5” features we have available in some browsers are generally scripting extensions that don't affect HTML at a markup level at all.
bobince
2009-09-21 19:35:58
ok great - this was very helpful
2009-09-22 17:49:23
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Pick any of them. XHTML is just an XML-language serialisation of HTML, so in reality, it's just DOM nodes encoded in a different way. (Maybe I could create a JSON-serialised version of HTML?) Really, the choice of SGML or XML serialisation depends on whether or not the device supports it. Apple uses WebKit, which fully supports XHTML.
Remember to send your XHTML as application/xhtml+xml or it won't be treated as XHTML!
Oh... and one other thing. All browsers that I know of support XHTML except IE.
Delan Azabani
2010-05-06 07:55:46