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		diamondo25 on May 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm a fucking webmaster (2016) At least the doctype is simple nowadays. The XHTML one was horrendous.

laristine on May 9, 2022 [–]

Horrendous yes, but it was necessary, because without it we wouldn't have had the nice doctype HTML5 today. It addressed a lot of problems found in the early html and paved way for standardization and a path forward.

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