- From: David Walbert <dwalbert@learnnc.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:29:29 -0500
On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Elliotte Harold wrote: > Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > >> Interesting, but not of much use. If an author really wants to >> support MSIE, she needs to not only ensure that MSIE tries to >> render the document at all by setting its MIME type to text/html, >> but also to not use anything XHTML-specific that isn't possible in >> HTML, e.g. <p> inside <li>, or inline SVG. And if one isn't going >> to use these features anyway, there is no reason to prefer XHTML >> over HTML other than following the fashion. > > Documents on the web aren't just about browsers, and certainly not > just about IE. There are many interesting things you can do with > XHTML documents you can't do with non-well-formed HTML documents. Or export them to PDF via PrinceXML, for example. The ability to mark up content once but publish it twice, in a usable, attractive format both for the web and for print, gives XHTML tremendous practical value for web publishers. It isn't just theoretical or fashionable anymore. _____ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill dwalbert at learnnc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070307/e60c3d97/attachment.htm>
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