Comment by reconnecting
6 hours ago
Valid pure HTML 4.01 (1) made in 2025 counts?
I don’t thing it’s about luddites as website mentioned. Many professions have tools suggesting that person have extensive experience and in terms of web development, XHTML 1.0 or old standards of HTML are such.
It does not? HTML 4.01 is not XML. So not XHTML. What's the confusion?
Both technologies are from the same period and share same validation culture from W3.
> Both technologies are from the same period
Not really, XHTML is as current as HTML 5.
XHTML 1.0 is older and is indeed (more or less?) the XML variant of HTML 4.01.
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The XML part of XHTML is an important feature which HTML 4.01 doesn't have tough.
Writing valid HTML should be a bare minimum (I know it isn't!).
It is not “your HTML”, it’s HTML 4.01 from 1999, when XHTML 1.0 is from 2000. The common is the origins of validations that comes from W3 validator (1).
Same badges, same limits.
1. https://validator.w3.org/
Sorry, I edited my reply in the meantime and I probably broke your citation.
but what you are describing is XHTML 1.0, not XHTML in general.
HTML5 has its XHTML variant too, sometimes called XHTML 5.
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