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Re:How a new HTML element will make the Web faster by pjmlp on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @04:37AM (#8256384)
Fully agree. XHTML was a sane way to have a proper application development model, instead of this document as applications hack.

But the browser vendors failed to make a stand against bad HTML.

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Re:How a new HTML element will make the Web faster by disjointrevelry on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @09:58AM (#8257552)
'bad HTML' could easily have just been an ego clash and pissing contest between developers of competing browsers. It was arguably more difficult to implement than just well-structured syntax.
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