
As workers on the web today, we are dealing with many technologies that have been stable for a long time.
HTML 4.01 was made a recommendation in 1999, XHTML 1.0 a formulation of HTML 4.01 in XML became a recommendation in 2000, and was revised in 2002. In other words, at the base of all modern web development is an eight-year-old technology.
HTML 4.01 may be a good, stable ground for developers to stand on, but it could be better. Lots of things have changed in the way the web is used and perceived in the last eight years, (...)