"Standards" that need "tricks" to work (for some definition of work) in a popular browser. I find all this scary.

You must be new here, huh? Many W3C standards need "tricks" to work in IE. Prime example: CSS. Great stuff, but you'll definitely need to learn some tricks to get it to work on IE!

I bought into the idea of XHTML for all the reasons w3.org put forward.

For what it's worth, I haven't. I do use XHTML, primarily when working on Petal templates for MKDoc. It's a royal pain compared to working with HTML - the slightest minor error and the whole page fails to parse. XML is just too finicky and verbose for my taste as a markup language.

I'm sure I use text/html to serve XHTML, but I can't honestly say I ever thought about it much.

-sam

In reply to Re: OT: How do you serve up XHTML? by samtregar
in thread OT: How do you serve up XHTML? by wfsp

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