Comparison of XHTML mobile profile and XHTML basic

Posted by Jo Rabin 3 years 41 weeks ago

See also...

• Measuring the effects of operator transcoders
• Location, location, location
• Kind of a "Sunshine Transcoder story"
• Character encoding issues and the mobile Web
• News from W3C: Best Practices, mobileok and content transformation guidelines progress

This article describes the differences between some different flavors of XHTML. The table covers XHTML mobile profile and XHTML basic, and some different versions of each.

Version 1.2 (update), 29 Jan 2007

Jo RABIN

Some references are works in progress and are subject to change

Module [1]	Basic 1.0 [2]	MP 1.0 [3]	MP 1.1 [4]	MP 1.2 [5]	Basic 1.1 1 nov [6]
Structure	Body, Head, HTML, title	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Text	Abbr, acronym, address, BLOCKQUOTE, BR, cite, code, dfn, Div, em, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, KBD, P, pre, Q, SAMP, span, strong, VAR	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Hypertext	A	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
List	DL, DT, DD, ol, UL, Li	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
(Basic) Forms	Form, input, label, option, select, textarea	(ADDs) fieldset, optgroup	(Same)	(ADDs) button, legend	(Same)
Tables	Caption, table, TD, Th, tr	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Image	IMG	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Object	Object, Param	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Metainformation	Meta	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Link	Link	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Base	Base	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Intrinsic events	(None)	(Same)	Onload (M), onUnload, onclick (M), ondblclick, onnmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onfocus, onblur, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup, onsubmit (m ), onreset (M), onselect, onchange	(Same)	(Same-level of support not discussed)
Legacy	(None)	Start attribute on ol, Value Attribute on Li	(Same)	(Same)	(Removes) Start attribute on ol
Presentation	(None)	B, big, HR, I, small	(Same)	(Same)	(ADDs) sub, sup, TT
Script	(None)	(Same)	(ADDs) NoScript, script	(Same)	(Same)
Style Sheet	(None)	Style element	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)
Style attribute	(None)	Style attribute	(Same)	(Same)	(Same) Deprecated
Text input modes (not part of [1])	(None)	(Same)	(Same)	Inputmode attribute on input, textarea	(Same)
Target module (not part of [1])	(None)	(Same)	(Same)	(Same)	(ADDs) Target attribute (o)

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