I can be a pessimist #3

Keeping today's short.

There is a difference between xhtml syntax, and xhtml being served as xml.

To be honest, 80% of developers don't need to know the difference, but probably 80% of those that do need to know the difference don't know the difference.
But if you have kept up with standards talk, xHTML 2.0 has been killed. Does that mean that xHTML is dead? No. The syntax of xhtml lives on as HTML 5.

I'm not the best person to describe what happened, but someone who is good at writing comics is...

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