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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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