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Jul 1 2008   11:09AM GMT

Overheard: XHTML or HTML 5?



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
XHTML, HTML 5
jonathan_christopher.jpg What started to get under my skin was the fact that I spent a lot of time writing XHTML, but serving it as text/html. Why? Because the servers to which I was publishing are configured similarly to 99% of the other servers powering the Internet.

Jonathan Christopher, Siding with HTML over XHTML, My Decision to Switch
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Dec 4 2007   5:18AM GMT

Overheard: HTML 5 won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
HTML, XHTML, Technology
douglas-crockford.jpg “There are good ideas in HTML, but many of these were discarded in the XHTML effort.

My thinking is that we should take a step back and refocus. The problems with HTML will not be solved by making it bigger and more complicated. I think instead we should generalize what it does well, while excising features that are problematic.

HTML can be made into a general application delivery format without disrupting its original role as a document format.”

Douglas Crockford, Fixing HTML

The simplification of the language reduces the cost of training of web developers. It incorporates the best practices of Ajax development. It provides extensibility without complexity.

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