HTML & XHTML Clarity

Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML via Surfin’ Safari. The gist…if you’re serving XHTML as HTML you may need to rethink your approach.

In fact, the vast majority of supposedly XHTML documents on the internet are served as text/html. Which means they are not XHTML at all, but actually invalid HTML that’s getting by on the error handling of HTML parsers. All those “Valid XHTML 1.0!� links on the web are really saying “Invalid HTML 4.01!�

Luckily all of my stuff in invalid from the get go, makes failure much easier.