> The HTML vs XHTML situation: would you prefer a hard failure on any error, or a graceful degradation system that is therefore always slightly degraded?
Definitely would prefer the hard failure. The community will literally fix all of that in a week -- all template engines and DOM generators will adapt to avoid the hard errors and everything has a good shot at becoming better as a result.
Definitely would prefer the hard failure. The community will literally fix all of that in a week -- all template engines and DOM generators will adapt to avoid the hard errors and everything has a good shot at becoming better as a result.