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| From | Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: Super basic newbie question |
| Date | 2012-03-16 19:47 +0000 |
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| Message-ID | <hJs37lKrj5YPFwzf@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid> (permalink) |
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In comp.lang.javascript message <5868340f-2935-4726-adfd-e24d1bc3803b@t1
6g2000yqt.googlegroups.com>, Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:18:30, David Mark
<dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> posted:
>On Mar 14, 5:01 pm, Dr J R Stockton
><reply1...@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> wrote:
>> In comp.lang.javascript message <timstreater-AC76DF.19462813032012@news.
>> individual.net>, Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:46:28, Tim Streater
>> <timstrea...@greenbee.net> posted:
>>
>>
>>
>> >And XHTML is dead itself so a simple doctype will do.
>>
>> Is there a potent reference to justify that commonly-asserted statement?
>> I may be about to enter into discussion with a Untiversity Alumni site
>> about their Web site source code, which I think is intended to be XHTML
>> - but they use a "STYLE" attribute.
>
>It's really simple. IE 8- don't know what XHTML is, XHTML has no
>progressive rendering and displays a lone error message if the markup
>is invalid. So clearly it is unusable on the Web.
>
>All of those XHTML doctypes, extra slashes, etc. found on the Web
>(twelve years later) are just noise, propagated by copy and paste. Of
>course, lately the XHTML doctypes are being replaced with the
>shortened HTML5 version, but the slashes, xmlns attributes, etc.
>remain. Changing the doctype has no effect, but it's quicker than
>rewriting all of the bogus markup and allows developers to claim that
>they have "HTML5 sites" in production. :(
A newly-written assertion may be true, but it is not a reference.
Their pages work in IE8, although the W3 validator complains.
Aside : <http:||www.merlyn.demon.co.uk|showtree.htm> (make the obvious
three corrections) is not formally part of my site, but it may
interest the less expert. It may go into |js-props.htm if I can
find a place for its button.
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