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Mark's dips into XHTML

posted: Jul 6, 2003 6:52:50 PM

On his blog, Mark Pilgrim mentioned his latest article on XML.com, The Vanishing Image: XHTML 2 Migration Issues.

I liked Mark's article, and also discovered and liked his previous article on XHTML, All That We Can Leave Behind.

Mark also links to Evan Goer's good Exploring XHTML 2 (which now has a part 2 as well).

To be honest, XHTML 2.0 kind-of makes my mind go numb at this point. I mean, XHTML 1 makes sense to me as: take HTML and require it to be well formed XML, maybe add a little namespace support. That alone seems like it would be major / revolutionary. I guess I am getting old or dumber or something.

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Comment by: MikeyC · http://www.zeit.ca/
posted: Aug 2, 2003 8:35:34 PM

"I mean, XHTML 1 makes sense to me as: take HTML and require it to be well formed XML, maybe add a little namespace support."

We need an entirely new spec to force people to write valid code? If people aren't writing valid HTML who says they are going to start writing valid XHTML? No company in their right mind is going to release a browser that doesn't suck down tag soup so those who write sloppy code will continue to do so...as for namespace support: why exactly couldn't they have just bolted it onto HTML? I have yet to hear a verifiable real world reason why XHTML is in any way better than clean, valid HTML.

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posted: Jul 31, 2003 8:38:10 PM
title: XHTML the way mom used to make it

Don Park is commenting on the techno-too-complicatedness of XHTML in his XHTML: Technical Masturbation. I would definitely agree with a lot of what Don is saying when it comes to XHTML 2.0.

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posted: Aug 3, 2003 4:51:02 PM
title: To X or not to X HTML, that could always be a fine question

MikeyC left some good comments on my posts about XHTML. What follows are my responses to his comments.

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