Re: [XHTML2] Unicode line and paragraph separators

On 4/5/03 1:32 PM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Tantek [ISO-8859-1] ?lik wrote:
>> 
>> People will write XHTML2 that "happens to work" in current/legacy browsers
>> that don't actually have any support for XHTML2, kind of like people are now
>> writing/sending XHTML1 that "happens to work" in current/legacy browsers
>> that don't actually have any support for XHTML1.
> 
> With XHTML1, that was encouraged by the specs explicitly allowing it. I
> hope it will not be encouraged with XHTML2.

It doesn't matter whether it will be encouraged or not - people will do it
if they can get it to "work".

As evidence, note that it was _not_ encouraged for people to do that with
XHTML 1.1, but they are doing so anyway, more and more.

Tantek