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Thought for the day

Friday November 11, 2005

That’s it, no more XHTML for me. It’s a waste of time. All my sites from here on will use HTML 4.01. So there!

  1. nortypig

    1331 days ago

    As long as its a Strict DTD it apparently doesn’t matter… sounds like you had a bad day though…

  2. Gavin

    1331 days ago

    In that case, in future projects, you might want to think about using some of these as well ;-)

  3. Dylan

    1331 days ago

    HTML 4.01, XHTML, whatever. What’s the specific complaint about XHTML anyway?

    But for the web’s sake don’t use any of those horrible applets Gavin suggested! From what I can see those “Lake Applets” (which I assume are supposed to be shimmering water) are just static images with hellish mangled lower portions which MOVE!

    A quote from the site:

    The Lake Applet is by far the most used on Internet sites. I have made this site in order to give those of you who might be thinking of adding a Lake Applet to your site a bit of help if you need it.

    What sites are using these applets? Because I’d like to see them. Actually, probably not…

  4. Andy Hume

    1331 days ago

    Heheh – Hickson was saying this years ago. Isn’t it great how fashions come and go?

    What’s your beef with XHTML?

  5. djn

    1331 days ago

    Welcome back on the common sense wagon!

  6. Nathan

    1331 days ago

    Do what you like, I’m all for that. I am curious about the reason.

  7. kemie

    1331 days ago

    I’ve always wondered at what the advantage is of using xhtml served as html on a standard site that makes no use of xslt or any other xml-like stuff. In my recent projects i have gone back to an html doctype too, but i can’t say it’s out of a very thought-out, rational reason.

  8. Olly

    1331 days ago

    That’s nice dear. Would you like a nice cup of tea?

  9. AkaXakA

    1331 days ago

    Very good.

  10. cyberhobo

    1331 days ago

    Well IIIIIII’m writing all my pages in XML with tag names named after 700 hobos, with an XSLT that translates them into HTML 2.0 tables. So there!

  11. Thomas

    1331 days ago

    Ha! Finally I can recommend your site! ;)

  12. Charlie

    1331 days ago

    but, but, but…oh nevermind.

  13. Alistair Holt

    1331 days ago

    What is the problem with XHTML anyway?

  14. C Montoya

    1330 days ago

    This thought is just for today? You might change your mind tomorrow?

  15. trovster

    1330 days ago

    Nice one John. I converted back to HTML a while back, after being cool with the X, I decided to be realistic and go “old-school” again. I mean, pah, who uses that old relic which is HTML nowadays?

    I, like many here who have posted, would like your reasoning about the sudden willingness to be so uncool. Maybe because IE7 isn’t supporting XHTML, so it’s going to be another four years until we might be able to use it?

  16. name

    1329 days ago

    but … the X makes it sound so cool!

  17. Anne van Kesteren

    1328 days ago

    Inevitable.

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