Posted by Pavel Lepin on 11/09/07 11:08

damezumari <jannordgreen@gmail.com> wrote in
<1194602781.103012.31610@z9g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>:
>> Using XHTML in WWW context is an overplay.
>
> What is "WWW context"?

Publicly available content deployed on the internet and
served over HTTP. As opposed to something deployed in a
closed, controlled environment, such as an application on a
web platform used internally by company employees.

> When is XTHML doc type used?

XHTML is sometimes used as a backend representation of the
content served to the end-users as HTML, or for exchanging
markup between web services. If it is possible to ensure
that only XHTML-aware UA's are used for accessing the
documents, XHTML is occasionally used in web applications
similar to what I mentioned earlier in the post.

The reasons for this have been discussed unto death many
times in the past. GIYF.

--
....also, I submit that we all must honourably commit seppuku
right now rather than serve the Dark Side by producing the
HTML 5 spec.

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