The future of the Web, as of 2000: https://mckinley.cc/notes/20231013-xhtml-for-dummies.xhtml
@mckinley@twtxt.net Quite an interesting thought. I’m a bit surprised that XHTML didn’t take over. It felt like XML was a big enterprise thing, the rest didn’t adopt it with great delight. Also, most websites were entirely broken with invalid syntax all over the place, that even coorporate website generators produced big piles of garbage. No wonder they didn’t switch to XHTML as they would have needed to fix all their shit. Or else browsers would not display anything except of errors.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that and malformed XML errors were hostile AF to users that came across them.