2004-08-14 Wikis

Now that I spent hours adding XHTML output to Oddmuse, I find Ian Hickson’s article Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful again. Damn!

Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful

[...] authors intending their work for public consumption should stick to HTML 4.01

Argh! 😢

I also found an interesting article by Joel Spolksy via Ian Hickson’s blog: *How Microsoft Lost the API War* ¹. In Ian’s words:

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Here’s the executive summary: they realised that IE was competing with their OS to be the preferred application deployment platform. Since they make money from their OS, but don’t make money from IE, the choice was clear. ²

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