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Irapuan Martinez

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Apr 13, 2005, 12:04:36 AM4/13/05
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Como identificar quem se acha defensor dos web standards:

http://hsivonen.iki.fi/wannabe/

>If there is a match, you have spotted a wannabe.
>
>• Talks about the importance of the alt tag.
>
>• Claims <b> and <i> are deprecated.
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>• And spells it “depreciated”.
>
>• Uses <span style="font-style: italic;">, because <i> is presentational.
>
>• Wants software to use <em> and <strong> when the UI says italic and bold.
>
>• Marks up quoted text as <cite>.
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>• Complains about upper-case tags in HTML.
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>• Claims XHTML 1.0 is more semantic than HTML 4.01.
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>• Claims XHTML 1.0 is more structured than HTML 4.01.
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>• Claims XHTML 1.0 is less presentational than HTML 4.01.
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>• Claims browsers parse XHTML served as text/html faster than they parse
>HTML.
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>• Refers to “the benefits of XHTML” without specifying what the benefits are.
>
>• Uses large XHTML 1.0 Transitional documents with table layouts while
>claiming enhanced compatibility with handheld devices thanks to XHTML.
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>• “Future proofs” a site by migrating from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML
>1.0 Transitional and keeps serving it as text/html with all the old
>JavaScript scripts in place.
>
>• Uses the XML empty element notation on pages that are supposed to be
>HTML pages.
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>• Complains about doctypeless application/xhtml+xml or SVG documents and
>smugly points to validator.w3.org.
>
>• Claims all tables are evil.
>
>• Advocates pixel-based absolute CSS positioning as the righteous
>replacement for evil tables.
>
>• Changes //EN at the end of the public identifier in the doctype to the
>language code of the language the page is written in.
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>• Omits the namespace declaration in XHTML or SVG and claims it is OK,
>because it validates.
>
>• Serves documents written using a home-grown XML vocabulary along with an
>XSLT transformation to HTML to browsers instead of serving HTML, because
>XML is more semantic.

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