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XHTML tried this approach, but it failed for this and other reasons.

• lmm 2y ago
  Or maybe it failed entirely for the "other reasons", and this particular part of its design was actually right.
  • gedy 2y ago
    Well at the time, I do know that the vast majority of complaints I heard from colleagues was that it breaks too easily and wouldn't render after that.
    • 6510 2y ago
      I cant remember but I had a list of unsolvable problems that just ruled it out. I think in one instance I wanted to populate a form after it failed validation but couldn't correctly escape the value attributes. I believe the biggest design flaw is that the data is the first document it loads. It doesn't work like that. The application should load first, then the ui logic, then the data and then you should get to load other data sets. Swap them, filter, join, merge etc You would get powerful applications with very little effort.
      • 6510 2y ago
        This was an enjoyable read https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10vfgiq/what_was_going_on_in_the_web_development_world/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10vfgiq/what...