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Posted by Harlan Messinger on March 22, 2008, 10:31 am
Please log in for more thread options dorayme wrote:
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>>>> Serve XHTML to IE as "text/html" and it happily tag soup error corrects
>>>> it
>>>> to HTML. That is also not "working with it".
>>> Perhaps that is a teensy weensy bit harsh rf? Surely it is reaching an
>>> accommodation with it and so in a sense it is working with it.
>> How is converting it to HTML "working with it"?
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> By accommodating it! Now we are going in circles. Actually, I have no
> argument with you, I know what you mean. It cannot take advantage of
> anything that the doc "unconverted" has to offer. You are just
> momentarily more furious about it than I am.
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>>> It is an interesting social problem how come so many people use the
>>> xhtml doctype when there is so little point. It got some press and off
>>> it went like Britney...
>> Why do so many people still use HTML comments inside a script element when
>> the only reason to do so was a bug in one single release of IIRC netscape 3
>> which only lasted for a few weeks anyway?
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>> Because most of the population are sheep, blindly following the one in front
>> of them, unable to lift their head up a bit to have a real look around.
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> Ah yes, sheep... sheep? Sheep! New Zealand!
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What, finger pointing? Australia is plenty sheepish, with all those
"sheep stations" (I always picture sheep in business suits on the
railway platform looking at their watches, waiting impatiently for the
8:06) so far away from anything that the children have their entire
education and social life by radio.
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