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8 items tagged “xhtml”

XHTML—myths and reality. Useful overview of XHTML from Tina Holmboe of the W3C’s XHTML Working Group, which suggests considering HTML 4.01 strict unless you need mixed namespaces for things like MathML. I’ve been storing this blog’s content as XHTML but serving as HTML for several years now. 2 7th October 2008, 4:56 pm

django-html. A small project I’m working on to make Django behave better with regards to HTML v.s. XHTML. 11 9th September 2008, 11:59 pm

James Bennett: Why HTML. Finally, somewhere to point people when they ask why I avoid XHTML that’s a bit more up to date than Hixie’s rant from 2002. 4 18th June 2008, 12:27 pm

Elliotte Rusty Harold: Why XHTML. “XHTML makes life harder for document authors in exchange for making life easier for document consumers.”—since there are a lot more document authors than there are tools for consuming, this seems like an argument AGAINST XHTML to me. 34 5th June 2008, 9:25 pm

SVG and text/html. Anne van Kesteren discusses the need for SVG and MathML to be embeddable in HTML 5, not just XHTML. 0 17th October 2007, 4:06 pm

W3C Relaunches HTML Activity (via) “XHTML has proved valuable in other markets” == XHTML on the public Web has failed. Long live HTML! 5 7th March 2007, 10:34 pm

XHTML is not going to replace HTML as the web’s official markup language because it turns out that resilience is more useful than brittleness.

Douglas Crockford 0 14th December 2006, 5:40 pm

xhtmloutlines—Technorati Developers Site (via) OPML alternative built on top of XHTML. 0 24th March 2004, 6:54 am

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