Why “XHTML” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
> Not trying to throw shade, but I think the number of devs wishing that the web ended up with XHTML + JVM I don't necessarily like the JVM, it's just the most popular system-in…
by Parodper · Oct 21, 2026
Not trying to throw shade, but I think the number of devs wishing that the web ended up with XHTML + JVM (now owned by Oracle...) may just be you. Never mind that when Microsoft…
by pseudosavant · Oct 21, 2026
> XHTML was dropped in favor of HTML5 and XSLT was pretty much useless after that Client-side XSLT was always pretty useless, but I dont see what HTML5 has to do with it? The on…
by bazoom42 · Oct 18, 2026
One thing I can think of is tag names being upper case in HTML and lower case in XHTML in the DOM.
by jraph · Oct 18, 2026
It was reintroduced, in the form of jsx. Sure there is some embedded JS in there as well but ignore that and JSX is thr XHTML comeback story.
by com2kid · Oct 18, 2026
> Well an XHTML parser (and serializer) is a lot simpler Perhaps, but a combined html and xhtml parser is more complex than just a html parser. Since html already is entrenched,…
by bazoom42 · Oct 17, 2026
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "xhtml" over time.
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. Read more on Wikipedia