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		teddyh on Jan 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web standards killed the HTML star In making HTML/CSS the admittedly convoluted mess that it is, we nevertheless dodged the larger bullet of the Web converting to Flash, XHTML FO and/or PDF. In this way HTML5/CSS is the lesser of evils, since it still has semantic components in a readable non-binary format.

breckenedge on Jan 4, 2014 [–]

Oh man, is XHTML FO dead yet? Haven't heard that term in years, made me shiver.

twic on Jan 5, 2014 | [–]

It's XSL FO, isn't it? You could use XSLT and FO to render XHTML to some graphical output, but it's not an intrinsic part of XHTML.

EDIT: You could use XSLT and FO to render XHTML to some graphical output if you were totally mental.

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