Real world standards
“In addition there are technical hurdles to the use of XML. Every modern browser, including Mozilla and Safari, is much worse at XHTML than at HTML. People tend to foolishly gloss over the transition from one to the other, thinking that code you write for one will “just work” when you switch to XHTML. That simply isn’t true. If you look at XHTML in both Mozilla and Safari and compare it to HTML, you’ll see that it’s slower, non-incremental, and generally buggier than HTML.”
Dave Hyatt
“The Idea that XHTML1 is compatible with HTML 4 is nice but it doesn’t actually work that way if you ship the proper MIME type for XHTML 1. If you ship it as text/html, and it turns out most browsers have to [..], I have to treat it as tag soup so there is a real problem jumping to the bright new XML world on the Web. So the Idea came up; why not improve HTML 4 - why not do HTML 5 if you will.”
Brendan Eich
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