In defense of web developers. Zeldman: “The social benefit of rethinking markup sealed the deal. XHTML’s introduction in 2000, and its emphasis on rules of construction, gave web standards evangelists like me a platform on which to hook a program of semantic markup replacing the bloated and unsustainable tag soup of the day.”
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This is a non sequitur.
He could have proselytized semantic markup and accessibility with HTML 4.01, and he knows it. Combined with a dubious assertion that browsers went into quirks mode with HTML 4.01 (when in actual fact, this only happens with certain DOCTYPES and affects XHTML as much as it does HTML) he actually makes it sound like he's looking for excuses for being an XHTML apologist, which is an unintentionally revealing way to frame it.
Noah Slater - 8th July 2009 12:52 - #