{"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":"<p>On this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2009\/07\/29\/misunderstanding-markup-xhtml-2-comic-strip\/\">comic<\/a>&#8216;s panel 9 describes XHTML 1.1 conformance as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">the added unrealistic demand that documents must be served with an XML mime-type<\/p>\n<p>I can understand this viewpoint. XHTML 1.1 is a massively misunderstood spec, particularly around the modularization angle. But because of IE, it&#8217;s pretty rare to see the XHTML media-type in use on the open web. Later, panel 23 or thereabouts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you want, you can even serve your documents as application\/xhtml+xml, instantly transforming them from HTML 5 to XHTML 5.<\/p>\n<p>Why the shift in tone? What makes serving the XML media type more realistic in the HTML 5 case? IE? Nope, still doesn&#8217;t work. I&#8217;ve observed this same shift in perspective from multiple people involved in the HTML5 work, and it baffles me. In XHTML 1.1 it&#8217;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<p>As it stands now, the (X)HTML5 situation demotes XHTML to the backwaters of the web. Which is pretty far from &#8220;Long Live XHTML&#8230;&#8221;, as the comic concludes. Remember when X stood for Extensible?<\/p>\n<p>-m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this comic&#8216;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&#8217;s pretty rare to see the XHTML media-type in use on&#8230;<\/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_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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-9Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}