On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
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Amen.
It's really amusing to see people continuing to trot out
matter-of-fact statements dismissing XHTML. Those statements seem
to fall into two basic types that can be paraphrased as either:
- The only people who author documents in XHTML are naive
developers/designers who do it just because they have been
mislead into thinking that it's the cool/right thing to do.
- The only people who user/serve-up XHTML are pedants who are
out of touch with browser/implementation realities.
It seems to me that those who make such statements either:
- are unaware of any useful things that can be done with
documents other than just displaying them in browsers -- or
about how having those as well-formed XML can potentially make
it easier to process them
- have an agenda that makes them (consciously or unconsciously)
want to dissuade others from using XHTML/XML (and XSLT, etc.)
and to instead use alternatives (whatever alternatives they
happen to personally be promoting)
Or they realize that even those who (1) know what they're doing and
(2) care, still get things wrong:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//people.w3.org/mike/
-ryan
PS - my homepage is invalid, too: http://validator.w3.org/check?
uri=http%3A//theryanking.com/blog/
