September 19, 2002
Questioning XHTML
Two interesting links regarding the use of XHTML: Ian Hickson’s Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful and Henri Sivonen’s XHTML - What’s the Point? Both attempt to address the chicken-and-egg problem of XHTML, where your markup reaches a Schrodingerian point of flux, neither properly-parsed XML nor valid HTML.
scottandrew.com is XHTML 1.0 Transitional out of vanity, served as text/html out of sad necessity. You, however, are free to use perfectly-valid HTML 4.01 for your real-world web design needs. (Links courtesy of Martijn Kint.)










