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immibis
3 months ago
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Why can't HTML alone do includes?
If XHTML was literally just HTML but with XML syntax, it would be pretty cool.
int_19h
3 months ago
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That's exactly what it was, though - HTML 4.01 Strict but with XML syntax.
jraph
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isn't it what XHTML5 is, more or less?
bazoom42
3 months ago
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It is.
immibis
3 months ago
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XHTML 1.0 was, and they evolved it incompatibly.
bazoom42
3 months ago
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There was an ill-advised XHtml 2.0 project which was supposed to be incompatible, but it was abandoned. Currently xhtml is defined as an alternative “serialization” of html, but the semantics are exactly the same as html.
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