[Gllug] [OT?] Please sign my Google petition ...

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:51:10AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Richard Jones writes:
> 
> >Just to say that I'm not advocating that Google drop access to sites
> >which aren't XHTML valid.
> 
> Why restrict it to just XHTML? Surely if the site validates, then that's
> OK. Most of my sites are HTML 4.01 Strict (with a few still Transitional).
> I don't generally write XHTML because it serves no purpose.
> 
> XHTML is purely a marketing gimmick to be buzzword compliant by reworking
> everything in XML. Bleurgh!

The real benefit is that XHTML 1.0 Strict (or 1.1, I forget now)
throws out a load of legacy cruft, like <font>, frames and inline
Javascript.

Rich.

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