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• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:05:07 -0400
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At 11:43 AM -0400 9/17/02, John Cowan wrote:


>Why, because if it were a child, its content would be displayed by old
>browsers that didn't understand it.
>


We're talking about XHTML 2.0 here. Backwards compatibility went out 
the window long ago. But yes, I suppose that made sense at the time.
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