[mananaysiempre]

Er, no, that’s not what I was referring to. The XHTML 2 story was stupid, yes (though I think the RDF / “Linked Data” tooling could’ve been really nice had it not been a fantasy), but lots and lots of people were willing to give XHTML 1.1 a chance during the XML craze and the original web standards push; except the HTML 4.01 Strict rules which XHTML 1.1 enforced were complicated enough that nobody ended up willing to tolerate showing the user literally nothing for every fumble in a server-side script. (Part of the problem was that people were routinely generating markup from textual templates.)