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I'd argue XHTML did take off and was very widely adopted for the first 5-10 years of the century.
by mgr86 9mo ago
I'd argue XHTML did take off and was very widely adopted for the first 5-10 years of the century.
- pests 9mo agoFrom a recent HN post, ePub's are technically XHTML by spec.
- mgr86 9mo agoYes, that is an important point. I guess I was focused mainly on the browser. Which is not the typical way to consume epubs. But you are right that ePubs are essentially packaged XHTML.
- dragonwriter 9mo agoEPUB 3.x spec uses “XHTML” to refer to the XML serialization of HTML in the current WHATWG HTML living standard, not the separate historical standard from HTML known as XHTML. The obsolete EPUB 2.x (and earlier, I believe) specs actually used XHTML (XHTML 1.1 in EPUB 2.x), though.
- mgr86 9mo agoThanks for that update. I had worked with epub production in the past, but it was probably nearly 15 years ago at this point.