2006_05_01_archive

Reason to use XHTML 1.0 rather than 1.1

I never had a good reason until today, when I changed the doctype for

an XHTML 1.0-compliant page to 1.1, revalidated and got one error:

Error at Line X column Y: there is no attribute "target".

Hmm, curious. A quick search turns up the relevant W3C FAQ entry:

Why was the target attribute removed from XHTML 1.1?

It wasn't. XHTML 1.0 comes in three versions: strict, transitional,

and frameset. All three of these were deliberately kept as close as

possible to HTML 4.01 as XML would allow. XHTML 1.1 is an updated

version of XHTML 1.0 strict, and no version of HTML strict has ever

included the target attribute. The other two versions, transitional

and frameset, were not updated, because there was nothing to

update. If you want to use the target attribute, use XHTML 1.0

transitional.

Well, then, XHTML 1.0 transitional it is ;)

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United 93

Last Friday night Alli and I saw United 93, the new movie about the

4th hijacked flight on September 11th 2001.

We both thought the movie was very good: taut, emotional, touching.

Again, like Munich a few months ago, I tend to enjoy these movies as

action tales just as much as I do their historical aspects, even if

the latter are inaccurate to some extent. In the case of United 93, I

understand the production crew did its best to stay as close to the

story as possible, diverging only when it was impossible to know what

truly happened. So like Munich, I'd recommend United 93 to everyone.

I found three things to be fairly striking about the movie.

One was the amount of people acting as themselves, i.e. the real

people who were involved that day. For example, many of the air

traffic controllers fall into this category. You (or at least we)

didn't know this until you see the credits at the end.

Second was the lack of panic among most people involved. The civilian

air traffic controllers, military personnel, etc, all seemed to take

things in stride. They may have been confused at times, but never

panicked. Voices were fairly low and measured.

Third was the absolute routine-ness of the whole flight itself. It

looked like any of hundreds of flights I have taken in the past,

nothing special. Even with the camera focusing on them, the hijackers

didn't look suspicious to me. Maybe the youngest one, who was nervous,

did, but even then only a little bit. Or maybe it's because I'm from

the middle east myself...