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by masklinn 36 days ago
People didn't go towards "it mostly works", people go towards "it works at all". A lot of people tried to use xhtml, and it didn't work, broken content was pervasive and the experience when facing broken content was irredeemable.
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What was the exact nature of how devs found themselves unable to emit valid XML in all scenarios? What kind of bugs did they run into?