Re: switch to XHTML

[Jeff Teunissen]

Gregory Martin Pfeil wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, March 2, 102, at 10:57  AM, Gerold Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> > Thank you but no thank you.
> >
> > I am still using NeXTSTEP OmniWeb browser version 2.7 beta 3 so HTML
> > is still appreciated.
> >
> > Otherwise I would be forced to surf with my PC.
> 
> I think you misunderstand. If your browser can parse HTML, it can parse
> XHTML. XHTML doesn't break anything -- just adds some restrictions.

Except for the fact that many browsers can't read it, which makes it no
different from Netscape 2.0's HTML extensions. No thanks.

> eg:
>         In HTML, you can use upper, lower, or mixed-case tags and
> attributes
>         In XHTML tags and attributes must be lower-case

This is one of the dumber things to have taken place under the aegis of the
W3C, and one of the reasons HTML won't be going away any time soon.

W3C isn't supposed to be in the business of creating policy, or legislating
style.

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