From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2004-02-06T05:05:03+09:00
Subject: Re: YAPV (Yet Another Pickaxe Version)

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Why HTML 4 rather than XHTML 1.1?

For various reasons. The two main ones are that
(a) XHTML doesn't get you anything over HTML, except perhaps the ability 
to apply XSLT to it. It's no more semantic.

(b) Web Browsers are HTML UAs, not XHTML UAs. Some happen to know how to 
pretend that XHTML is HTML when served properly, but that's not the same 
thing at all. (For more on this topic, see an excerpt from the MacIE 
mailing list from the illustrious Tantek �elic at:
http://phrogz.net/tmp/TantekOnXHTML.txt )


I sense that my comments are likely to spark a heated debate, which 
would be inappropriate for this newsgroup. Please send rants on why 
XHTML will save the Universe to me personally, rather than to the newsgroup.

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