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I agree the approach sounds reasonable, and I think if we were having this conversation twenty years ago I would have been on the pro-XHTML side. But we tried
by jefftk 7y ago
I agree the approach sounds reasonable, and I think if we were having this conversation twenty years ago I would have been on the pro-XHTML side. But we tried it, and it didn't work.
- pdimitar 7y agoNot sure I ever understood why it didn't work exactly. Do you have examples?
- Vinnl 7y agoPeople who did try to author XHTML often inadvertently introduced the yellow screen of death, and did not feel they were getting anything in return.
- mkozlows 7y agoHere's the classic Hixie write-up, from 2002: https://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml https://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
- goto11 7y agoXHTML could either be served as HTML or as XML. When served as XML it would not render in all browsers, but when served as HTML it would. Since serving as XML did not provide any particular value for the document author, there was no reason to use it. But XHTML served as HTML is just HTML with some extra slashes which are ignored.