- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:32:48 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:14:13PM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: > I confess to having considerable reservations about > this whole Apple/Mozilla/Opera-led initiative, and > the following statement[1] /really/ causes me to wonder > where they might seek to take us : > > > Generally speaking, authors are discouraged > > from trying to use XML on the Web, because > > XML has much stricter syntax rules than the > > "HTML5" variant described above [...] How odd. The vast majority of authors I've spoken to/typed at about the subject are discouraged due to lack of support from Microsoft[1] and GoogleBot. Most seem to be fans of the strict syntax rules and of the stricter parsing rules, and plenty are using it as text/html. [1] And I applaud their stance on the subject (holding off until they can do it right rather then releasing a half-backed implementation) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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