How does HTML compare to XHTML?
How does HTML compare to XHTML? XHTML is much more strict and less forgiving than HTML. Many popular browsers allow for loose HTML but XHTML is much more complicated and thus creates problems for popular web browsers and upgrades. A strict coder would want to use XHTML because that is how their minds work. Since XHTML is case sensitive it returns more errors and requires more checking and time. In HTML you can leave non quoted attributes and non value items and there is no problem. XHTML throws a fit. The verdict? XHTML sucks and will never be adopted. It has already lost out to AJAX, Ruby, PHP, and Flash (JavaScript/ActionScript). It is a dying language but HTML plays an important part in every social network for images etc.
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