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XHTML 2.0 was not backwards compatible with HTML and was therefore doomed from the start. It would never have succeeded.
by goto11 4y ago
XHTML 2.0 was not backwards compatible with HTML and was therefore doomed from the start. It would never have succeeded.
- WorldMaker 4y agoAs I recall even in draft standards you could mix XHTML 1.0 namespaces and XHTML 2.0 namespaces to use "backwards compatible markup" where you needed to. It wasn't pretty as most things involving XML and lots of mixed namespaces isn't, but it was possible. We still don't know if it would have gotten more backwards compatible had browsers tried to actually implement it.