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by mort96
309 days ago
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> No they didn’t, unless you and I have wildly different definitions of “a fair amount”. The developers who did that were an extreme minority because Internet Explorer, which had >90% market share, didn’t support application/xhtml+xml. It was a curiosity, not something people actually did in non-negligible numbers. Despite being an extreme minority of strict parsing enthusiasts who decided to explicitly opt into strict parsing, they still messed up enough for me to occasionally have encountered "XML Parse Error" pages. You'd think that if anyone managed to correctly generate strict XHTML, it'd be those people. |
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Once more, they were operating in a world designed for lax parsing. Even if their direct choices were for strict parsing, everything surrounding them was lax.
Somebody making the choice to enable strict parsing in a world designed for lax parsing is a fundamentally different scenario than “If XHTML really took off (as in a significant majority of web pages were XHTML)”, where the entire technology stack from top to bottom would be built assuming strict parsing.