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It's a speculation question in regards to the average quality of any given page's code that you visit. It is obvious that the vast majority of the WWW would improve. This is of course a speculation question for fun and you should assume that for some reason every author of every page suddenly got their site working and served as application/xhtml+xml. What do you think the implications would be? Of course we would assume the search engines would then support the mime as well.
What if?
- John
Secondly, in terms of content and quality or otherwise of what is actually on all these pages, there would be no change either way.
IE would obviously have to change quite a bit, as it is the one browser that can't handle all that application/xhtml etc stuff at the moment, isn't it? But there would no doubt still be browser wars over other things. It's the nature of the beast.
And Frontpage would probably still churn out drivel and insert lots of unnecessary tags into it too.
What really drives the Web will be big business, and as long as loads of commercial sites are still doing well despite their tables-based designs and good old mouseovers, all your dreams of universal accessibility and pristine coding will probably remain a fantasy.
Must go now. Busy working on a brand new Frameset.
If XHTML is ever going to work then we need to put pressure on IE to ensure that it behaves itself when we serve application/xhtml+xml.
