{"id":80,"date":"2009-07-07T02:15:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=80"},"modified":"2009-08-13T22:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T11:27:01","slug":"xhtml2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2009\/07\/xhtml2\/","title":{"rendered":"XHTML2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes only a brief skim through the com\u00adments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/2009\/07\/02\/xhtml-wtf\/\">Zeld\u00adman\u2019s XHTML2 death post<\/a> to realise just how many peo\u00adple have <em>absolute\u00adly no idea<\/em> what\u2019s been going on in their indus\u00adtry for <strong>years<\/strong>. Or why they even start\u00aded cod\u00ading to a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar stan\u00addard in the first place. Or why they con\u00adtin\u00adue to do&nbsp;so.<\/p>\n<p>Prag\u00adma\u00adtism be damned it seems; bet\u00adter to act Chick\u00aden Lit\u00adtle and bemoan the death of some\u00adthing they\u2019ll nev\u00ader use whilst par\u00adrot\u00ading inac\u00adcu\u00adrate FUD about HTML5 than to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=html+5+xhtml&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=\">bloody Google search<\/a> and read the <em>first<\/em> line of the <em>first<\/em> result. XHTML con\u00adtin\u00adues on in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/previewofhtml5\">HTML5\u2019s XML seri\u00adal\u00adi\u00adsa\u00adtion<\/a> (skip to <em>Doc\u00adu\u00adment Rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion<\/em>), with all the fea\u00adture ben\u00ade\u00adfits of the \u2018clas\u00adsic\u2019 seri\u00adal\u00adi\u00adsa\u00adtion that appar\u00adent\u00adly caus\u00ades the imme\u00addi\u00adate heat-death of the uni\u00adverse if&nbsp;used.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re free to keep using XHTML and include what\u00adev\u00ader tal\u00adis\u00admans make you sleep well at night. Copy\/paste every shred of meta\u00adda\u00adta markup you can find that reg\u00adu\u00adlar surfers won\u2019t see and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.well.com\/~doctorow\/metacrap.htm\">search engines will large\u00adly ignore<\/a>. Exces\u00adsive use of the lat\u00adest W3C XML spec for mark\u00ading up indi\u00advid\u00adual char\u00adac\u00adters will ensure your page is absolute\u00adly per\u00adfect. Meanwhile\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What did we actu\u00adal\u00adly gain from&nbsp;XHTML?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes only a brief skim through the com\u00adments on Zeld\u00adman\u2019s XHTML2 death post to realise just how many peo\u00adple have absolute\u00adly no idea what\u2019s been going on in their indus\u00adtry for years. Or why they even start\u00aded cod\u00ading to a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar stan\u00addard in the first place. Or why they con\u00adtin\u00adue to do&nbsp;so. Prag\u00adma\u00adtism&nbsp;be&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}