W3C Relaunches HTML Activity (via) “XHTML has proved valuable in other markets” == XHTML on the public Web has failed. Long live HTML!
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W3C Relaunches HTML Activity (via) “XHTML has proved valuable in other markets” == XHTML on the public Web has failed. Long live HTML!
And XHTML actually failed on the mobile market too... but they don't want to realise that, or so it seems.
zcorpan - 8th March 2007 00:40 - #
I don't agree. If I look through the websites that I browse most often, almost all of them are in XHTML.
It's a shame that the W3C can't hold to XHTML. Parsing XML is so much less of a headache than parsing tag soup.
But are they valid, and do browsers treat them as XHTML? If not, what benefit did they get from the extra work involved in serving as XHTML rather than HTML 4?
Validity isn't the issue - well-formedness is. If you are, say, parsing microformats - a well-formed XML-based web makes life a lot easier. I'm looking forward to the day when I can uninstall Tidy...
Really? Honestly? Truly?