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XHTML and CSS Embarrassment (akitaonrails.com)
7 points by akitaonrails on Jan 11, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


He seem to believe that valid XHTML will render the same in all browsers. If only it were so easy!

For example the Flash-trick that he talks about is just a script that writes the embed-tag through javascript. The only advantage is that the page now validates, since the validator doesn't execute javascript. The actual HTML rendered by the browser is still contain the embed, so obviously it will not render any differently.

Its just a pointless pursuit of validation for the sake of validation.


And I thought browsers deciding on the best way to render was the key strength of HTML.




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