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Thursday 21 September 2006
For the Love of HTML
Back in the dark ages of 2000, Simon St. Laurent started up the XHTML-L mailing list.
The past year or two it’s become one of those sleepy lists that you forget all about until someone mails a query to it.
Here’s a recent exchange:
Hi, sorry for this but have not receieved any mail from this groups for a long time. regards – A
They are all back to HTML 4 – L
I’ve gone back to HTML 3 – P
I don’t know about you, but for some reason this made me laugh in the proverbial out-loud fashion so I thought I would share it with you here.
Filed under: humor, standards, w3c, web design and development
Posted by: Molly | 09:20 | Comments (22)
It made me smile too
Classic!
And…learning HTML 4 from a book written by you was what kicked-off my whole interest in web design at the beginning (and that was in late ‘97).
Cool. So we’re all going backwards… Today a client actually asked me if I could add a javascript mouse trail to their site… :-/
Yes, HTML is the new black. Pity because xHTML is way more effective getting people to use web standards.
It’s funy because it’s true!
That’s okay, one of my clients just asked me if they could edit their webpage using Microsoft Word….
I like a specific persons sig, some will know it…
Whether you use html or xhtml it works fine. I won’t even bother to get into discussion about one versus another. I have also belonged to the list for years, as well as many others, and traffic is not that busy on the XHTML list. The CSS D list is one of the busier lists and I do not get a chance to read all that mail.
Back to the sig …
‘Be strict to be cool.’
I wholeheartedly agree. Following strict is not 100% prefect, but it covers a lot of territory. Lose the deprecations, folks, and think about how you are actullay using the markup.
Take care Molly.
I call that a meditation list, very resting for once
Let’s back to HTML 3!
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