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0 pointsori_b7y ago0 comments

HTML and the menagerie of related standards has never, as far as I'm aware, become simpler. And the old versions have never been removed from a browser.

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dredmorbius7y ago· 2 in thread

XHTML was a step too far. It was rejected in favour of HTML4 & 5, ultimately.

ori_bOP7y ago

xhtml seems to me quite a bit simpler to implement than HTML5.

dredmorbius7y ago

XHTML is hard-structured, and among its negatives, requires being fully downloaded to be parsed and validated. HTML, including H5, has soft-fail modes.

At least that's the justification I generally see. See the Criticism section of the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML#Criticism

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