R.I.P XHTML 2 (and take NSFW with you please)

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The future of HTML is HTML 5. Rest in peace, XHTML 2.

This said, the <video> tag in HTML 5 is pretty much dead on arrival too. Check Video for everyone for an interesting attempt at reasonable fallback. I say Flash is far from dead yet (which is, for the Mac users at least, too bad).

I also do hope that the <NSFW> tag never makes it in HTML 5. This is highly cultural and sensitive. Pretty much nothing is not safe for my work — actually I think the divide should be between legal and illegal content as far as I'm concerned, and that even is highly variable if not controversial. Who are you to slap a moral judgment on content? Leave your puritanism out of my web! And if you need someone you don't even know to slap a Not-Safe-For-Work-You-Idiot censortag so that you can safely and randomly surf the interwebs from your office open space, I suggest changing job. Merde alors !