Why do we bother? XHTML 1.0
September 19th, 2002 by Larry Burton
Yesterday Scott Andrew grabbed my attention with a silly little blurb about yellow jackets. Today he’s grabbed my attention by making me think about why I bother attempting to keep this site validating with the newest spec from the W3C. I do it so that I can prove to myself that I can. I now have two compelling arguments to drop it back to HTML 4.01… at least for the foreseeable future.
After reading those two articles I started wondering about my motivation for changing from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0. I did it for the same reason that I changed my Blogger template to output XML and then wrote the PHP scripts to convert the XML files into HTML. I was playing. I did it for the same reason that I then created another PHP script to provide an RSS 0.91 source of this data. I was playing. That’s the main reason I keep this journal or weblog up and running. I like playing with the technology.
Well, I also like writing and expressing my opinion.
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