Ian Hickson wrote:
But not withstanding the SVG and MathML content, which isn't compatible
with IE anyway (being ignored at best, and causing bad markup at worst),
there are features that Sam can't use because of his constraints, which he
could if he was using just HTML5. (Like document.write(), which is
required for things like Google Analytics today, I believe.)
I don't see any documentation that requires XHTML to not support
display.write, but it certainly is a reality that nobody has done so.
Luckily the DOM is malleable to the extent that I could fill in that gap
if I want to. In fact, you can find the logic to get Adsense working
in XHTML by following the links from here:
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/11/10/Thats-Not-Write
But the fact is that I rather like the fact that my website costs are
funded by IE users. Most of my friends never see an ad served from my site.
- Sam Ruby
