On 14 June 2012 20:49, Tyler programmer651@comcast.net wrote:
Yes, Microsoft was great when they made IE 6, but when IE 7 came out, Microsoft killed the Internet star. I mean, HTML 5? What? I read a book that said after HTML 4.01, it would be XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1 ... not HTML 5!
I recommend you learn a thing or two about HTML's history, and how XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 (as well as 2.0) was a mistake. XHTML was an attempt to make sure to use strict XML for the HTML, which would create easier parsing. Unfortunately, no one actually did what was required; *serve* as XML, which meant the browsers would still quirk parse it.
Now, of course, if you serve as XML, the browsers will parse it as XML and then break if there is a syntax error. But XML also does not support most HTML entities, so there is a problem right there. But the parsing is likely to be faster.
HTML5 was create in protest against the slow progress to a new HTML standard, and as XHTML wasn't going anywhere fast, people gave it the shrug it so richly deserved.
For that reason, XHTML5 exists, which is just like HTML5, but is required to be parsed as XML.
Also, your email seems to indicate that Microsoft created HTML5, they were perhaps the _last_ ones to get onboard the 'HTML5 train'. Much of HTML5 was supposed to go past the usual long-winded and slow process of standards that is W3C.
And IE6 sucked when it was released.