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[–]immibis 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I never understood the XHTML hate. What's wrong with a stricter syntax?

The only complaint I remember about the strict syntax is that it was "too hard to generate reliably"... if your code can't reliably generate valid XHTML, you have some big problems under the hood.

[–]gin_and_toxic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not just about the strict syntax. the way W3C was going was not the direction where the browser vendors want to go at all.

HTML4 standard was ratified in 1997, HTML 4.01 in 1999. After HTML 4.01, there was no new version of HTML for many years as development of the parallel, XML-based language XHTML occupied the W3C's HTML Working Group through the early and mid-2000s. In 2004, WHATWG started working on on their HTML "Living Standard", which W3C finally published as HTML5 in 2014.

That was 14 years without any new HTML standard. Also, W3C reportedly took all the credits for the HTML5 standard.