Tim Bray wrote:
On Mar 6, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
I agree with what you say, but I fear this topic has been discussed and dicussed again in the past with no result. For some reason, people seem to prefer a format where "bad" data (tag soup) is allowed, and the task to fix it is put onto the recipients rather than the creators. For me it's very obvious that this is the wrong approach -- if you can require the recipients to do that, you can also require the same responsibility from the producers.
I agree also, but for some implementors, HTML is actually easier, if they are handing a chunk of bytes to an HTML rendering control, they'd rather not reconstruct the syntax from the infoset, they'd rather just take an opaque chunk of bytes. So we really don't have community consensus in favor of XHTML, even though it's obviously cleaner.
Agree w/ Tim. Also, HTML4 enjoys far better rendering support than XHTML does.
Robert Sayre
