bitsgalore, 5 days ago to webdev Latest version of #HTML standard includes a warning that advises against using the #XML syntax (formerly known as #XHTML), stating that it's "essentially unmaintained"🧐 : https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html Looks like a recent change, as there's no mention of this in the April 3 version of the spec: https://web.archive.org/web/20240403210532/https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html Unless I'm misreading it, this seems like a big deal? E.g. XML syntax is mandatory in #EPUB 3 documents: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#dfn-xhtml-content-document Time to #wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon 📯?
Latest version of #HTML standard includes a warning that advises against using the #XML syntax (formerly known as #XHTML), stating that it's "essentially unmaintained"🧐 :
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html
Looks like a recent change, as there's no mention of this in the April 3 version of the spec:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240403210532/https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/xhtml.html
Unless I'm misreading it, this seems like a big deal? E.g. XML syntax is mandatory in #EPUB 3 documents:
https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#dfn-xhtml-content-document
Time to #wheelOutTheDigitalDarkAgeKlaxon 📯?