The recent release of the XHTML 2.0 proposed standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has unleashed a bit of a backlash among hardcore Web designers. The issues are nicely summarized in Jeffrey Zeldman's blog. It seems that XHTML 2.0 is a complete break with earlier standards like XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.x, something many Web designers do not appreciate. Zeldman puts it in perspective, noting that it's not worth getting your panties in a knot over this issue. He argues that browsers will not support this standard for years and that it really should be given another name since it solves different problems than do the current page design standards. Arcane Web design arguments? Perhaps, but this kind of storm is what leads to Net consensus about what should and should not be a standard. Worth a read if you're in the Web design biz.