{"id":610,"date":"2009-08-05T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2009-08-05T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T05:20:55","slug":"misunderstanding-markup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/08\/misunderstanding-markup\/","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstanding Markup"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this comic<\/a>‘s panel 9 describes XHTML 1.1 conformance as:<\/p>\n

the added unrealistic demand that documents must be served with an XML mime-type<\/p>\n

I can understand this viewpoint. XHTML 1.1 is a massively misunderstood spec, particularly around the modularization angle. But because of IE, it’s pretty rare to see the XHTML media-type in use on the open web. Later, panel 23 or thereabouts:<\/p>\n

If you want, you can even serve your documents as application\/xhtml+xml, instantly transforming them from HTML 5 to XHTML 5.<\/p>\n

Why the shift in tone? What makes serving the XML media type more realistic in the HTML 5 case? IE? Nope, still doesn’t work. I’ve observed this same shift in perspective from multiple people involved in the HTML5 work, and it baffles me. In XHTML 1.1 it’s a ridiculous demand showing how out of touch the authors were with reality. In HTML5 the exact same requirement is a brilliant solution, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.<\/p>\n

As it stands now, the (X)HTML5 situation demotes XHTML to the backwaters of the web. Which is pretty far from “Long Live XHTML…”, as the comic concludes. Remember when X stood for Extensible?<\/p>\n

-m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this comic‘s panel 9 describes XHTML 1.1 conformance as: the added unrealistic demand that documents must be served with an XML mime-type I can understand this viewpoint. XHTML 1.1 is a massively misunderstood spec, particularly around the modularization angle. But because of IE, it’s pretty rare to see the XHTML media-type in use on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,7,4],"tags":[832,833,834,274,615,744,831,273,819],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyance","category-browsers","category-xml","tag-conformance","tag-documents","tag-groupthink","tag-html","tag-html5","tag-markup","tag-modularization","tag-xhtml","tag-xhtml5"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t