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Re:Things I Learned Reading Webkit’s UA Stylesheet by com2kid on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:20PM (#27886863)
My main irritation with XHTML was that any tiny mistake in it rendered the document not visible at all.

Oh and how picky the <head> tag had to be specified.

It didn't help that this was all done back in the days when HTML pages were still often hand written.

Now days with HTML being largely framework generated, XHTML would be awesome!

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Re:Things I Learned Reading Webkit’s UA Stylesheet by CarelessExpert on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:40PM (#27887043)
Oh yeah, HTML had ergonomics that made it easier to use by humans and a lot harder to use by computers.

XHTML is basically the opposite.

As a former coder, I support that tradeoff. As a user... well, there's many reasons XHTML failed, and that's definitely one of 'em!

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Re:Things I Learned Reading Webkit’s UA Stylesheet by pjmlp on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:26AM (#27891234)
It mostly failed because browser vendors in general didn't care enough, and then Mozilla pushed HTML 5.
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