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I was reading the last couple of days about XHTML 2.0 looks pretty interesting and I like some of the changes. Some I dont really see the point in doing but most are valid reasons. I found the parts about the img tags being changed interesting and wonderd what you guys thought about this?

As this will be the new standard and people will want this to be how theyre templates are coded.

Resource: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/

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Quick re-cap?
In what way are the img tags being changed?

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http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/introduction.html#s_intro

Images: the HTML img element has many shortcomings: it only allows you to specify a single resource for an image, rather than offering the fallback opportunities of the object element; the only fallback option it gives is the alt text, which can only be plain text, and not marked up in any way; the longdesc attribute which allows you to provide a long description of the image is difficult to author and seldom supported.

XHTML 2 takes a completely different approach, by taking the premise that all images have a long description and treating the image and the text as equivalents. In XHTML 2 any element may have a src attribute, which specifies a resource (such as an image) to load instead of the element. If the resource is unavailable (because of network failure, because it is of a type that the browser can't handle, or because images have been turned off) then the element is used instead. Essentially the longdesc has been moved into the document, though this behavior also mimicks the fallback behavior of the object element. (To achieve the tooltip effect that some browsers gave with the alt attribute, as in HTML 4 you use the title attribute).
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