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I'm not certain that it's true to say most of the web quickly moved to XHTML. Sure a number of sites advertised themselves as XHTML but they were not strictly X

I'm not certain that it's true to say most of the web quickly moved to XHTML. Sure a number of sites advertised themselves as XHTML but they were not strictly XHTML compliant. This could be due to third party widgets or other included code or it could be due to a mistake in template construction. Whatever the issue fully compliant XHTML wasn't used much in practice outside of hand-crafted pages. Also Internet Explorer, for example, never implemented XHTML which would have been a deal breaker for many sites.

lucideer 9y ago
> they were not strictly XHTML compliant The vast majority were not strictly XHTML compliant, but whatever the figure was, I'd imagine it wasn't too different to all the many "strictly HTML compliant" sites now (compliant according to which commit?). The point was they used XHTML, which means they could trivially choose to validate and test their XML well-formedness with built-in tools everyone had ready access to. Exposing your end-users to those conformance checks (i.e. the in-browser strict XML-parser) wasn't the only "value" offered.
- ubernostrum 9y ago
  The point was they used XHTML, which means they could trivially choose to validate and test their XML well-formedness with built-in tools everyone had ready access to. I'm honestly trying to figure out whether this is satire or not.