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18th June 2008 - Link Blog

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.

Posted 18th June 2008 at 12:27 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 18th June 2008.

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