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pjmlp on Oct 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

It was called XHTML, but then people preferred to keep the Frankenstein alive.

olavk on Oct 27, 2015 [–]

XHTML was just a slightly different syntax for HTML, it did not change anything about CSS.

pjmlp on Oct 27, 2015 | [–]

Alone yes, but the whole XHTML alongside all the XML modules that were being defined was a vision oriented towards to what XAML or other native layout engines offer.

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