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Jul 19th / Sunday / '09
There are two meanings to XHTML: technical and marketing… …The marketing kind (XHTML served using the text/html MIME type) is processed just like HTML by browsers but the authors attempt to observe slightly different syntax rules in order to make it seem that they are doing something newer and shinier compared to HTML.
very well written ariticle about the ending of the xhtml 2 working group. has other quotable gems such as “java is to javascript as ham is to hamster”.
on this note, the only times i’ve used xhtml were when i was working in an already-xhtml environment. otherwise, i never felt the need for ‘stricter syntax rules’. i’ve always been perfectly capable of closing p’s and li’s on my own, and never felt uncomfortable with standalone elements. why? because br’s, and img tags don’t wrap around anything, they place something. thus, no ending tag. simple concept, you’d think.
