Sidewinder is geared towards supporting the most up-to-date standards, and using them as a tool to build internet-focused desktop applications. Sidewinder recognises XHTML documents, and will use the latest XHTML 1.1 Modularisation schemas to validate the document whilst it is being rendered.
The validation schemas also incorporate other standard languages, including:
- XLink
- SVG
- XForms
- XML Events
- MathML
- RDFa
The actual rendering of each of these languages depends on the installation of plug-ins, which is discussed in a later section.