XHTML NEVERMORE (2009) Once upon a web site dreary, while I coded weak and weary Over many an attribute and forgotten quote...
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As I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly I heard a tap tap tapping as a keyboard not so gently rapping, rapping at my DOCTYPEs door - 'Tis the validator' I muttered, 'Asking me what I did that for" Only to make it work, I swore, and nothing more...
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Ah, yes it was a bleak November, as we crying developers spilled our woes upon the floor Eagerly we wished the morrow: Vainly we had sought with sorrow...
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...specifications, standards and no IE6 on our Lenovos For the rare, single element that worked without gore in all browsers, it's only this and nothing more...

Apr 22, 2021 · 2:34 PM UTC

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So the saddened spec rustled the curtains Questioned the markup of which we were certain Filled with errors never known before So that now, to the still beating of our hearts, we stood repeating "Tis XHTML, a spec retreating . . . Qoth the browser . . . 404" -=-
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