[whatwg] Re: OT: (X)HTML and design of site

Sime Ramov sime.ramov at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 10:27:42 PDT 2004


On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:58:14 +0100, Malcolm Rowe
<malcolm-what at farside.org.uk> wrote:
> It's unclear whether you're talking about one of the WHATWG specs, or the
> WHATWG site itself.

About WHATWG site.

> Either way, the answer is the same: The browser that currently has the
> largest market share by far does not support XHTML. There is no reason to
> design a site (or spec) around a technology that cannot be used by the
> majority of your readership, when an 'older' technology works perfectly well
> for _all_ readers.

Well, I agree more or less. My personal site will be pure HTML 4.01
and some simple CSS when I built it soon, just like WHATWG is :)

However, I wen't hardcore with notice on this site:
http://hr-netiquette.org/. Just for fun :)



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