[Irl-dean] A nice summary of why not to use client-side XHTML ...

[Joshue O Connor]

Hi Barry,

>  there *are* problems with
> almost all other "mainstream" browsers also.  Check out the full
> article for details.

Indeed. I will.

> The key point is *not* whether serving XHTML presents any
> "showstoppers", accessibility related or otherwise.  The point is
> whether serving XHTML offers any *benefit*, accessibility or
> otherwise, that would justify serving it in preference to HTML,

Well IMO it can and much of these benefits will come from the extensible
nature of XHTML/XML,  for example being able to expand existing
namespaces and get around limited semantics by adding additional roles
and states such as what is happening with WAI-ARIA. [1] These are real
benefits but again they won't fly (not in mainstream usage) while not
supported by you-know-who. There are ways to tag on or kind of hack HTML
(which is not supposed to be extensible) hence the X in XHTML but anyway...

> But finally, I didn't actually mean to re-open the whole
> debate here

No worries.

[...]
>  I
> thought Hammond had lined up and articulated the arguments on
> this much more comprehensively and clearly than I have seen
> anyone else do,

Thats good enough for me, I will check it out.

Cheers

Josh

[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria

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