Methnen (AKA Jamie) wrote:
I disagree with the hixie article for so many reasons. Its a preference. And it's not one that, at this point, really makes a whole lot of difference either way.;
My favorite of the initial responses to the hixie article: http://h3h.net/2005/12/xhtml-harmful-to-feelings/
Just about everything in this post you linked either misses the point, or is wrong, or uses fallacious reasoning, or all three at once.
And just for fun: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html?dupe=1
Fair enough.
I have no desire for an argument but felt the need to answer that last email as I'm tired and probably a bit grumpy.
Yep. Me neither.
What I think you missed was that the original email in this thread was about converting *existing html documents* to xhtml. There is literally no advantage to this, unless there's some need to use xml tools, or some plan to integrate svg/mathml/etc. with the old content. But as both of those are unlikely, it's probably a bad idea, as there are several disadvantages, as explained in Ian Hickson's article, mainly having to do with cross-browser copatibility.
HTML itself is in such a state of flux right now (and hasn't it always been?) that when we worry about the kinds of things metioned in the hixie article I think we are getting a little silly.
Yes. Which is why it's stupid to improperly use the rapidly-changing, unsupported xhtml, instead of the reasonably stable, and much more compatible html, without some particular good reason.
Writing using XHTML encourages well formed code [...]
Or you could just... write well-formed code anyway...
But even if they do work out something better we still have to rely on the browser devs to implement it correctly which they never seem to be capable of despite their sometimes best intentions.
It's odd that you seem to get the point here in this last sentence though, after having ignored it for the rest of your email. ;)
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Anyway, it's definitely not worth fighting about. I don't really care what you use in your pages. But the original poster may want to carefully consider the reasons for switching existing content to xhtml. It's a lot of hassle for essentially nothing.
-Jacob