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Tuesday 19th December 2000

XHTML Basic makes the Web more mobile 5:03PM, Tuesday 19th December 2000

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - the body that sets the standards for the Internet - has issued XHTML Basic as a W3C Recommendation. It's a subset of XHTML that lets smaller mobile devices join the Web content party.

Based on a combination of XML and HTML, the specification covers a set of features for creating rich Web content for a wide range of devices. These include mobile phones, PDAs, pagers and TV-based Web browsers.

"Interoperability has always been essential to the Web," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "The simplicity of early versions of HTML made interoperability easy. While XHTML 1.0 is a powerful language, support for the full XHTML 1.0 feature set may be too much to expect browsers on cell phones and other small devices to handle. 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."

Content developers interested in developing XHTML Basic documents should check out the W3C's own browser and editor, Amaya.

Alun Williams

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