Ivan Sagalaev congratulates all web-standardists from April 1st.

According to Ivan himself, he is probably the most famous person in runet, rather coldly related to the benefits of XHTML, and DTD validation. However, it remains a very reputable IT specialist. And this morning, I find in his blog post with the following heading: "XHTML 2".





Well, actually his very post begins with the following words:

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I read the comments on my articles in the XHTML category and thought about them for a long time. On the one hand, of course, and with the support of XHTML in browsers, everything is not as good as we would like, and the W3C, it seems, also does not invest its weight in this direction ... But on the other hand, if anyone is to blame for this situation then it’s not W3C and certainly not XHTML itself, but those who all this time only promised that XHTML will ever be, but didn’t do anything for it. If we were more courageous to use new standards, you see, and would not be sitting now with the need to support HTML for the next ten years.



In short, I realized that I was wrong, and decided to take a step forward: translate softwaremaniacs.org to XHTML. It turned out pretty easy, though not on the whole site. Details further ... "

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Full text here: softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2007/04/01/switching-to-xhtml2



I haven’t studied XHTML2 thoroughly yet, but I dare to safely assume that we see it on the page with a note. By the word FF 2.0.0.2, Opera 8.5-9.1 correctly displayed the page, but Opera 9.1 didn’t show the document as un-styled and only 1-2 seconds later the styles were applied. Surprisingly, IE6.0 displayed the document, although not entirely correct, but made it impossible to navigate the site.



Findings? The devil is not so terrible as he is painted. And this is XHTML2, so no one bothers to put XHTML1.0 -1.1 into practice, even IE6, except for your laziness, gentlemen.



So, thank you Ivan for the demonstration of XHTML 2.0! And about the fact that you have changed your opinion about the use of HTML / XHTML in practice ... and you from the first of April !!! %)