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immibis
on May 4, 2025
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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
on May 5, 2025
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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
on May 4, 2025
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It is.
immibis
on May 4, 2025
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XHTML 1.0 was, and they evolved it incompatibly.
bazoom42
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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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