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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by jefftk on Sunday October 27, 2019 @08:32AM (#21369313)
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.
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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by pdimitar on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:10AM (#21369770)
Not sure I ever understood why it didn't work exactly. Do you have examples?
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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by Vinnl on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:31AM (#21370325)
People who did try to author XHTML often inadvertently introduced the yellow screen of death, and did not feel they were getting anything in return.
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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by mkozlows on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:55AM (#21370513)
Here's the classic Hixie write-up, from 2002: https://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
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Re:The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 by goto11 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @04:46PM (#21372278)
XHTML 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.
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