- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:01:35 +0100
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:20:29 +0100, Elliotte Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote: >> Personally I'd just give everyone HTML unless they specifically ask for >> XML and even then those tools should be capable of handling HTML imo. >> After all, it's the exchange format of the web. > > HTML is the exchange format only when there's a human in the loop. HTML > is really only suited for exchanging certain basic kinds of narrative > documents for eventual display to people, who will do the heavy labor of > interpreting them. However, there's a lot more than that on the Web, and > those use cases aren't really served by HTML at all, not even XHTML. > > I suspect my definition of "the web" may be broader than yours, and that > may be why we disagree. Well, since your article is about sending XHTML which is essentially the same as HTML minus some parsing oddity I don't really get this point. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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