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Fully agree. XHTML was a sane way to have a proper application development model, instead of this document as applications hack.

But the browser vendors failed to make a stand against bad HTML.



'bad HTML' could easily have just been an ego clash and pissing contest between developers of competing browsers. It was arguably more difficult to implement than just well-structured syntax.




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