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by diamondo25 1495 days ago
At least the doctype is simple nowadays. The XHTML one was horrendous.
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laristine 1495 days ago
Horrendous yes, but it was necessary, because without it we wouldn't have had the nice doctype HTML5 today. It addressed a lot of problems found in the early html and paved way for standardization and a path forward.
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