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by totony 4144 days ago
HTML5 is a mix of XHTML and HTML4, but with new features. Its syntax ressemble more XHTML than HTML and as thus it is more XML compliant, although you can ignore strict syntax [0]. HTML5 is both XHTML and HTML4 alike, so it is no surprise that is has taken over the market.

Note that I don't especially like HTTP/2 and believe that a hack like SPDY should not make it to a standard. More time and care should be made to make a central protocol like HTTP (central in that it is used alot).

[0] Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-things-you-sho...

>Instead, the HTML5 spec is written so that you can write HTML5 with strict XML syntax and it will work