- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:31:24 -0800
- To: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 10:24 AM -0800 12/19/01, Charles F. Munat wrote: >Also, with the exception of the xml:lang attribute, what is in >"native" XHTML that isn't in "native" HTML? What part of "native" >XHTML isn't understood by browsers/ATs? Native XHTML is the term I used for XHTML which is written without regard for the HTML backwards-compatibility suggestions given in the appendix of the XHTML 1.0 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines XHTML 1.0 is not fully backwards-compatible with HTML or with HTML browsers, nor is it intended to be. That is why the spec makes specific recommendations for compatibility -- such as writing <br/> as <br />. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201
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