- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:52:54 +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 agree that XHTML really covers more use cases than HTML because XHTML is a richer language (can represent a wider set of DOM trees). But because your article is about serving XHTML in an MSIE-compatible way, the requirement of compatibility with MSIE effectively bars the author from fulfilling those extra use cases. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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