> - the browser SHOUTS at me when i make a mistake, so i can fix it, > rather than enter tag soup mode and hope the browsers AI figures out > what i really meant. Same reason i like strictly typed programming > languages btw.
So this is really cool when you are compiling apps, but in the web world, where you may have users submitting content to your site, it becomes a huge headache very quickly. You suddenly have to make sure that *all* of your user submitted (or even editor submitted) content is valid, and if it's not, you either have to figure out how to fix it for them, or expect them to know enough about the intricacies if HTML to fix it themselves. then add on top of that the fact that if it's broken the browser simple won't show the page at all, and just show the error isn't good for your client or business at all, since one little unchecked error means your page (and possibly the entire site) is complete unaccessible. So it seems that the looseness of html is a big bonus for commercial websites. And you can always write valid code and check it yourself without all the technical wizardry that really doesn't benefit your customers at all anyway. On Sep 16, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Claus Wahlers wrote: > >> it's not that it's bad for your clients, or isn't forward compatible, >> or anything like that... it's just that he thinks developers will >> give xhtml a bad name if they don't understand it.. which to me seems >> really silly and is no basis to write a technical document like that. > > Whats *really* silly is that he makes a religion out of it. He not > only > uses it as a basis for that document, but develops entire new specs > and > submits them to the W3C. I think most of this is entirely politically > motivated, and most of it boils down to the mimetype issue. > > Anyways, i like serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml to browsers > that > support it because: > - the W3C says i SHOULD do that > - the browser SHOUTS at me when i make a mistake, so i can fix it, > rather than enter tag soup mode and hope the browsers AI figures out > what i really meant. Same reason i like strictly typed programming > languages btw. > > Cheers, > Claus. > > -- > claus wahlers > côdeazur brasil > http://codeazur.com.br > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
