Posted by Neredbojias on 05/04/06 05:33

To further the education of mankind, Jim Higson <jh@333.org> vouchsafed:

> David Dorward wrote:
>
>
>> The only browser I've done any serious poking at regarding XHTML
>> support is Firefox (you might have heard of it, it is quite popular).
>> Its (basic) XHTML support is far behind its HTML support (no
>> incremental rendering, no document.write, its only just regained
>> innerHTML), and its FAQ for developers recommends HTML 4.01 as
>> text/html unless you are doing something that actually needs XHTML
>> (such as MathML).
>
> Don't want to do on about it too much, but document.write and
> innerHTML are both pretty lousy ways of client-side scripting anyway.
> I do a lot of java script and hadn't even noticed they were gone.

I disagree highly with your take re. the document.write function. It's a
very facile and semantically-appropriate way to have pages gracefully
degrade for users without active javascript.

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Neredbojias
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