Malware and Threads

[Waratah]

I stand corrected on Acid 3.

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[Forsaken]

XHTML is dead. Long Live XHTML 5.

Fixed that for you.

There is in fact no XHTML5, just HTML5.
W3C decided to do away with XHTML for various reasons.

[Tiberius]

There is in fact no XHTML5, just HTML5.
W3C decided to do away with XHTML for various reasons.

What is it with people not being able to look up basic facts in this thread?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#XHTML5

XHTML is the future of HTML, mainly because it is easier to parse (since you can use XML parsers rather than the lax HTML parsers).

[Angrboda]

Well, the little drama party aside, I'll put my own two cents worth in.


I haven't used IE regularly in over a year, and yes, I'm aware of its faults with respects to standards, however for everyday browsing, it's still one of the better browsers. It's main fault, if any, comes from being too tightly integrated into the Windows operating system. (For another take on the standards question, if memory serves, the forerunner to Mozilla, the Netscape browser, was the original browser that started the "innovation wars" which has led to the current mess concerning standards.)

I have used Chrome and absolutely hate it. However, I recognize that may be in part due to my rather atypical browsing habits. (Having 200-300 tabs open is common for me; Chrome's fixed tab bar, as well as the overhead associated with sandboxing each tab in a separate process, makes Chrome an unworkable choice for me, especially on legacy hardware. Beyond that, it has less to offer in terms of plugins than Firefox, and the development of plugins appears somewhat handicapped by google's developer policies.) That aside, I'm sure for the bulk of users, Chrome is quite adequate. (Though you'll never persuade me that the large Chrome market share isn't due to a massive bunch of fan boi sheep jumping on the google bandwagon. There are numerous ways in which Chrome is clearly inferior to Firefox.)

Beyond that, Apple has stopped providing direct links from the Safari website to where you can download Safari for Windows, so that's a non-starter. (I was also non-plussed that Safari set itself as my default browser during installation without asking.)

Opera, I've used a good bit, and it is a very capable browser. Probably a second choice to Chrome, IE or FF, but not by much.

[Forsaken]

XHTML is the future of HTML, mainly because it is easier to parse (since you can use XML parsers rather than the lax HTML parsers).

You are right
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/articl...c/oct2003/